servant

\sɛʁ.vɑ̃\

/\sɛʁ.vɑ̃\/ adj

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The verdict

“servant” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,137. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#6,137
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui sert ; qui assure un service.

Corpus desk

Index FR-servant · servant · French

servant · rank #6,137 · 11 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #6,137
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH saurait

Nearest frequency peer: saurait (-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 « servant »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « servant » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

servant vs suivant
71% similar
servant vs servent
86% similar
servant vs sortant
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for servant
PropertyValue
Headwordservant
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\sɛʁ.vɑ̃\
Letters7
Frequency rank#6,137
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « servant »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).servantse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « saurait » (#6,136), « souligner » (#6,138), « sain » (#6,135). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « servant » est au #6,137. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around servant (IPA \sɛʁ.vɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #6,137 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for servant, with forms such as "esrvant", "seravnt", and "serrvant". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "suivant", "servent", "sortant", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is servant, spelled S-E-R-V-A-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui sert ; qui assure un service.
  2. 2
    Qualifiait ceux qui entraient dans l’ordre de Malte sans faire preuve de noblesse et qui étaient d’un rang inférieur aux autres chevaliers.
  3. 3
    Qualifiait les frères convers employés aux besognes matérielles du monastère, dans quelques ordres religieux,
  4. 4
    Qualifiait un fief qui relevait d’un autre fief appelé fief dominant, dans la jurisprudence féodale

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how servant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Frères servants, et quelquefois Chevaliers servants,
  2. Frères servants,

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • esrvant
  • seravnt
  • serrvant
  • servannt
  • servantt
  • servatn
  • servnat
  • servvant
  • sevrant
  • srevant
  • sservant

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of servant - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

esrvant2seravnt2serrvant1servannt1servantt1servatn2servnat2servvant1
Edit distance from "servant"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "servant"?
"servant" is spelled S-E-R-V-A-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \sɛʁ.vɑ̃\.
What does "servant" mean?
As an adjective, "servant" means: Qui sert ; qui assure un service.
What words are commonly confused with "servant"?
"servant" is commonly confused with "suivant", "servent", "sortant". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "servant"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "servant" is \sɛʁ.vɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "servant" come from?
"servant" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "servant", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

saurait#6,136visages#6,147paysans#6,122Norvège#6,117

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

successeur11 variantsmétrage11 variantsjustifie11 variantscalculs11 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list