Madame est servie
The verdict
“Madame est servie” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a phrase — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Formule prononcée par un employé de maison pour annoncer que les convives peuvent passer à table.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Madame est servie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | \ma.da.m‿ɛ sɛʁ.vi\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Madame est servie” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Madame est servie is 17 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ma.da.m‿ɛ sɛʁ.vi\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Formule prononcée par un employé de maison pour annoncer que les convives peuvent passer à table.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Madame est servie 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 Madame est servie, spelled M-A-D-A-M-E- -E-S-T- -S-E-R-V-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Formule prononcée par un employé de maison pour annoncer que les convives peuvent passer à table.
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.
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Using “Madame est servie”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-A-D-A-M-E- -E-S-T- -S-E-R-V-I-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ma.da.m‿ɛ sɛʁ.vi\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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