de service

/\də sɛʁ.vis\/ adj

Letters

10 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

de service is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui est officiellement affecté à une tâche dans un contexte particulier. Pronounced \də sɛʁ.vis\.

Key facts for de service
PropertyValue
Headwordde service
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\də sɛʁ.vis\
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

de service is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for de service is 10 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \də sɛʁ.vis\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for de service in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 French form is de service, spelled D-E- -S-E-R-V-I-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui est officiellement affecté à une tâche dans un contexte particulier.
  2. 2
    Qui joue régulièrement un rôle particulier aux yeux des autres.
  3. 3
    Qui joue un rôle utile en tant que la seule personne remplissant les conditions souhaitées dans le contexte, sans nécessairement avoir les titres de compétence pour le faire.
  4. 4
    À qui l'on attribue un rôle pour son apparence, au mépris de sa nature réelle.
  5. 5
    Qui joue uniquement un rôle utilitaire dans un esprit de soumission.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "de service"?
"de service" is spelled D-E- -S-E-R-V-I-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \də sɛʁ.vis\.
What does "de service" mean?
As an adj, "de service" means: Qui est officiellement affecté à une tâche dans un contexte particulier.
How do you pronounce "de service"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "de service" is \də sɛʁ.vis\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "de service" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.