servante
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | servante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛʁ.vɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #16,013 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Celle qui est employée aux travaux du ménage et qui sert à gages.
- 2Terme de civilité dont usaient les femmes, soit en parlant, soit en écrivant, selon un formulaire aujourd’hui démodé.
- 3Sorte 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.
- 4Une espèce d’insecte lépidoptère (papillon) de jour de la famille des arctidés (Arctiidae).
- 5Veilleuse 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"
Frequency rank: #16,013 in French
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