sers
\sɛʁ\
The verdict
“sers” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,390. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,390
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de servir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sers · sers · French
sers · rank #9,390 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,390
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH saisis
Nearest frequency peer: saisis (-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 « sers »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- réservés
réservés
90,613 corpus weight
- saisis
saisis
90,612 corpus weight
- sers
sers
90,611 corpus weight
- simulation
simulation
90,610 corpus weight
- souche
souche
90,609 corpus weight
- strict
strict
90,608 corpus weight
What this shows « sers » 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 | sers |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #9,390 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sers »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around sers (IPA \sɛʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #9,390 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for sers, with forms such as "esrs", "serrs", and "serss". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ss", "sr", "sur", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is sers, spelled S-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de servir.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de servir.
- 3Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de servir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sers appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour obtenir ce résultat, je me sers du même appareil que j’ai décrit pour traiter la fécule ; seulement j’enlève le tissu intérieur, que j’appelle velours-taupe, et je le remplace par un autre plus grossier, tel qu’une toile d’emballage épaisse ou tous autres tissus analogues, soit en chanvre, coton, laine, feutre ou clayons en paille, qui puissent, sans…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- esrs
- serrs
- serss
- sesr
- sres
- ssers
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sers - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sers", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).