cavalier servant
\ka.va.lje sɛʁ.vɑ̃\
The verdict
“cavalier servant” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Homme qui entoure une dame d’hommages et de soins attentifs et constants.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cavalier-servant · cavalier servant · French
cavalier servant · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cavalier servant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.va.lje sɛʁ.vɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
cavalier servant is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.va.lje sɛʁ.vɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Homme qui entoure une dame d’hommages et de soins attentifs et constants.".
No misspelling variants are generated for cavalier servant in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is cavalier servant, spelled C-A-V-A-L-I-E-R- -S-E-R-V-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Homme qui entoure une dame d’hommages et de soins attentifs et constants.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cavalier servant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Persuadé que je venais de rencontrer la figure classique du cavalier servant, je communiquai mes observations à mon ami le sacristain. — Il n’y a plus, me répondit-il brusquement, ni cavalier servant, ni sigisbée, ni patito.
Chacune des dames eut le mari de son amie, comme cavalier servant, comme mécanicien pour le réglage et le nettoyage, comme manœuvre pour conduire la machine dans les montées, comme domestique pour porter le manteau et le nécessaire de toilette.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.