serpent
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,554
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
18
similar word pairs
serpent is aFrenchnoun. It means: Reptile apode de l’ordre des squamates, au corps très allongé et cylindrique. Pronounced \sɛʁ.pɑ̃\. It ranks #6,554 in French word frequency. Often confused with servent and sortent.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | serpent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛʁ.pɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #6,554 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for serpent is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɛʁ.pɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,554 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 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 serpent, with forms such as "esrpent", "seprent", and "serepnt". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "servent", "sortent", "servant", 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 French form is serpent, spelled S-E-R-P-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Reptile apode de l’ordre des squamates, au corps très allongé et cylindrique.
- 2Symbole du mal et de la Chute; symbole de la tentation mensongère et néfaste.
- 3Peau de cet animal.
- 4Instrument de musique à vent, de forme serpentine, employé dans les églises pour soutenir les voix.
- 5Celui qui joue de cet instrument.
- 6Sergent de police.
- 7Meuble représentant l’animal du même nom dans les armoiries. Il est utilisé quand il n’y a pas d’identification possible de l’espèce. Il peut être représenté de différentes façons, seul ou enserrant d’autres meubles (fût de colonne ou de flèche, miroir…). S’il dévore un animal ou être humain, il est appelé guivre. À rapprocher de bisse et couleuvre.
- 8Traître, félon.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: esrpent,seprent,serepnt,serpennt,serpentt,serpetn,serpnet,serppent,serrpent,srepent,sserpent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for serpent
Misspelling Variants of "serpent"
Frequency rank: #6,554 in French
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