Serbie
\sɛʁ.bi\
The verdict
“Serbie” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,559. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,559
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pays des Serbes, dans les Balkans, bordé au nord par la Hongrie, à l’est par la Roumanie et la Bulgarie, au sud par la Macédoine du Nord et l’Albanie, et à l’ouest par le Monténégro, la Bosnie-Herz...
Corpus desk
Index FR-serbie · Serbie · French
Serbie · rank #9,559 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,559
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sean
Nearest frequency peer: sean (-1 rank slots)
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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Serbie »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Saône
Saône
90,445 corpus weight
- SDF
SDF
90,444 corpus weight
- sean
sean
90,443 corpus weight
- Serbie
Serbie
90,442 corpus weight
- sirop
sirop
90,441 corpus weight
- sorcier
sorcier
90,440 corpus weight
What this shows « Serbie » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Serbie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \sɛʁ.bi\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #9,559 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Serbie »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Serbie (IPA \sɛʁ.bi\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #9,559 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pays des Serbes, dans les Balkans, bordé au nord par la Hongrie, à l’est par la Roumanie et la Bulgarie, au sud par la Macédoine du Nord et l’Albanie, et à l’ouest par le Monténégro, la Bosnie-Herz...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Serbie, with forms such as "esrbie", "sebrie", and "serbbie". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Syrie", "servi", "serge", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Serbie, spelled S-E-R-B-I-E.
Definition
- 1Pays des Serbes, dans les Balkans, bordé au nord par la Hongrie, à l’est par la Roumanie et la Bulgarie, au sud par la Macédoine du Nord et l’Albanie, et à l’ouest par le Monténégro, la Bosnie-Herzégovine et la Croatie, et dont la capitale est Belgrade.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Serbie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’austrophilie a regagné considérablement du terrain en Serbie et elle n’en a jamais perdu dans la Valachie.
Ces dernières années, plusieurs projets de production de lithium se sont confrontés à de fortes oppositions locales, de la région de Loznica, en Serbie, à Tréguennec (Finistère), en passant par le Portugal.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- esrbie
- sebrie
- serbbie
- serbei
- seribe
- serrbie
- srebie
- sserbie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Serbie - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).