servante

\sɛʁ.vɑ̃t\

/\sɛʁ.vɑ̃t\/ noun

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The verdict

“servante” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,013. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#16,013
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
12
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celle qui est employée aux travaux du ménage et qui sert à gages.

Corpus desk

Index FR-servante · servante · French

servante · rank #16,013 · 12 variants · 12 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #16,013
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH serbes

Nearest frequency peer: serbes (-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 « servante »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « servante » 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).

servante vs servent
75% similar
servante vs suivante
75% similar
servante vs sortante
75% similar

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

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)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « servante »

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

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « serbes » (#16,012), « sets » (#16,014), « sentant » (#16,011). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « servante » est au #16,013. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around servante (IPA \sɛʁ.vɑ̃t\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,013 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for servante, with forms such as "esrvante", "seravnte", and "serrvante". 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", "suivante", "sortante", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is servante, spelled S-E-R-V-A-N-T-E.

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.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Pendant un demi-siècle, les bourgeoises de Pont-l’Évêque envièrent à Mᵐᵉ Aubain sa servante Félicité.
  2. Elle sonne. Une servante ouvre. Bien jolie et délurée, la soubrette !

This word in other languages

maid(English)criada(Español)Dienstbote(Deutsch)criada(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • esrvante
  • seravnte
  • serrvante
  • servanet
  • servannte
  • servantte
  • servatne
  • servnate
  • servvante
  • sevrante
  • srevante
  • sservante

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of servante - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

esrvante2seravnte2serrvante1servanet2servannte1servantte1servatne2servnate2
Edit distance from "servante"

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 "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's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

sainteté#16,006sacrifié#16,005vedettes#16,033rechange#15,991

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

Slovaquie12 variantséprouver12 variantspubliant12 variantsprudente12 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list