servent

/\sɛʁv\/ verb

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#3,641

in French word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

servent is aFrenchverb. It means: Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de servir. Pronounced \sɛʁv\. It ranks #3,641 in French word frequency. Often confused with seven and servez.

Key facts for servent
PropertyValue
Headwordservent
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\sɛʁv\
Letters7
Frequency rank#3,641
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for servent is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɛʁv\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,641 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for servent, with forms such as "esrvent", "serevnt", and "serrvent". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "seven", "servez", "server", 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 servent, spelled S-E-R-V-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de servir.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de servir.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: esrvent,serevnt,serrvent,servennt,serventt,servetn,servnet,servvent,sevrent,srevent,sservent

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for servent

Misspelling Variants of "servent"

esrvent7serevnt7serrvent8servennt8serventt8servetn7servnet7servvent8
Misspelling Variants of "servent"

Frequency rank: #3,641 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "servent"?
"servent" is spelled S-E-R-V-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \sɛʁv\.
What does "servent" mean?
As a verb, "servent" means: Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de servir.
What words are commonly confused with "servent"?
"servent" is commonly confused with "seven", "servez", "server". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "servent"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "servent" is \sɛʁv\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "servent" come from?
"servent" 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.