servaient
\sɛʁ.vɛ\
The verdict
“servaient” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,270. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,270
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de servir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-servaient · servaient · French
servaient · rank #17,270 · 13 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,270
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH secourir
Nearest frequency peer: secourir (-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 « servaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- scan
scan
82,734 corpus weight
- scepticisme
scepticisme
82,733 corpus weight
- secourir
secourir
82,732 corpus weight
- servaient
servaient
82,731 corpus weight
- shows
shows
82,730 corpus weight
- siennes
siennes
82,729 corpus weight
What this shows « servaient » 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 | servaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sɛʁ.vɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #17,270 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « servaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around servaient (IPA \sɛʁ.vɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #17,270 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de servir.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for servaient, with forms such as "esrvaient", "seravient", and "serrvaient". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "servent", "servant", "servait", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is servaient, spelled S-E-R-V-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de servir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how servaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Leur pouvoir était illimité ; ils guérissaient les malades abandonnés des médecins, rendaient fécondes les terres stériles, arrêtaient les épidémies de bestiaux, mais ils n’étaient point toujours d’humeur à ces sorcelleries bienfaisantes, et, plus volontiers, ils se servaient de leur puissance magique pour tourmenter les hommes et les bêtes.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- esrvaient
- seravient
- serrvaient
- servaeint
- servaiennt
- servaientt
- servaietn
- servainet
- serviaent
- servvaient
- sevraient
- srevaient
- sservaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of servaient - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "servaient", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).