servir
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,475
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
servir is aSpanishverb. It means: Ser útil para algo. Pronounced [seɾˈβ̞iɾ]. It ranks #2,475 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with sirvió and surgir.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | servir |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [seɾˈβ̞iɾ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #2,475 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for servir is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [seɾˈβ̞iɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,475 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for servir, with forms such as "cervir", "esrvir", and "serbir". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sirvió", "surgir", "surtir", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is servir, spelled S-E-R-V-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ser útil para algo.
- 2Estar al servicio de alguien.
- 3Ser capaz de reemplazar el rol de otro.
- 4Funcionar.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cervir,esrvir,serbir,serivr,serrvir,servirr,servri,servvir,sevrir,srevir,sservir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for servir
Misspelling Variants of "servir"
Frequency rank: #2,475 in Spanish
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