servante

/\sɛʁ.vɑ̃t\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#16,013

in French word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

12

similar word pairs

servante is aFrenchnoun. It means: Celle qui est employée aux travaux du ménage et qui sert à gages. Pronounced \sɛʁ.vɑ̃t\. Often confused with servent and suivante.

Key facts for servante
PropertyValue
Headwordservante
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sɛʁ.vɑ̃t\
Letters8
Frequency rank#16,013
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs12
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of servante in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for servante is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɛʁ.vɑ̃t\. Corpus data places it at rank #16,013 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for servante, with forms such as "esrvante", "seravnte", and "serrvante". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "servent", "suivante", "sortante", 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 servante, spelled S-E-R-V-A-N-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Celle qui est employée aux travaux du ménage et qui sert à gages.
  2. 2
    Terme de civilité dont usaient les femmes, soit en parlant, soit en écrivant, selon un formulaire aujourd’hui démodé.
  3. 3
    Sorte de petite table qu’on met dans les repas tout près de la grande table, et sur laquelle on place des assiettes, des bouteilles, etc., pour suppléer au service des domestiques.
  4. 4
    Une espèce d’insecte lépidoptère (papillon) de jour de la famille des arctidés (Arctiidae).
  5. 5
    Veilleuse laissée allumée dans un théâtre lorsque celui-ci est désert et plongé dans le noir.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: esrvante,seravnte,serrvante,servanet,servannte,servantte,servatne,servnate,servvante,sevrante,srevante,sservante

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for servante

Misspelling Variants of "servante"

esrvante8seravnte8serrvante9servanet8servannte9servantte9servatne8servnate8
Misspelling Variants of "servante"

Frequency rank: #16,013 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "servante"?
"servante" is spelled S-E-R-V-A-N-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sɛʁ.vɑ̃t\.
What does "servante" mean?
As a noun, "servante" means: Celle qui est employée aux travaux du ménage et qui sert à gages.
What words are commonly confused with "servante"?
"servante" is commonly confused with "servent", "suivante", "sortante". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "servante"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "servante" is \sɛʁ.vɑ̃t\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "servante" come from?
"servante" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.