serve
\sɛʁv\
The verdict
“serve” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,566. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,566
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme attachée au domaine qu’elle cultive moyennant redevance au seigneur qui en est le propriétaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-serve · serve · French
serve · rank #14,566 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,566
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH serrés
Nearest frequency peer: serrés (-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 « serve »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sen
sen
85,438 corpus weight
- serrée
serrée
85,437 corpus weight
- serrés
serrés
85,436 corpus weight
- serve
serve
85,435 corpus weight
- Sibérie
Sibérie
85,434 corpus weight
- Somalie
Somalie
85,433 corpus weight
What this shows « serve » 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 | serve |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛʁv\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #14,566 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « serve »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around serve (IPA \sɛʁv\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,566 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Femme attachée au domaine qu’elle cultive moyennant redevance au seigneur qui en est le propriétaire.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for serve, with forms such as "esrve", "serev", and "serrve". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sexe", "sure", "sire", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is serve, spelled S-E-R-V-E.
Definition
- 1Femme attachée au domaine qu’elle cultive moyennant redevance au seigneur qui en est le propriétaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how serve appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle se trouvait à la cuisine, près du feu, vêtue comme une serve.
Il fréquentait des femmes en noir, vivant seules dans les hameaux de la montagne, des esclaves, des serves ne parlant que le patois.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- esrve
- serev
- serrve
- servve
- sevre
- sreve
- sserve
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of serve - 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.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).