servent

\sɛʁv\

/\sɛʁv\/ verb

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The verdict

“servent” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,641. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#3,641
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de servir.

Corpus desk

Index FR-servent · servent · French

servent · rank #3,641 · 11 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #3,641
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH serez

Nearest frequency peer: serez (-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 « servent »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « servent » 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).

servent vs seven
71% similar
servent vs servez
71% similar
servent vs server
71% similar

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

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

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « servent »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).serventse 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 « serez » (#3,640), « sortant » (#3,642), « rempli » (#3,639). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « servent » est au #3,641. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around servent (IPA \sɛʁv\), averb. Corpus frequency is #3,641 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for servent, with forms such as "esrvent", "serevnt", and "serrvent". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, 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, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is servent, spelled S-E-R-V-E-N-T.

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.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. L’armée qui défend la grécité et la Syrie est née romaine et le reste, bien qu’y servent des officiers d’origine gréco-syrienne, dont un grand-oncle de Libanios admiré de son petit-neveu.
  2. La difficulté que l’on éprouve à les capter et à les circonscrire tient au fait que ces signes sont moins émis que désémis, raturés dès leur esquisse, esquivés dès leur inscription, résultat brouillé de dénégations, subterfuges, confusions, manœuvres de déplacements, dépenses compensatoires, où le jeu de l’écriture et le jeu social (pour simplifier une op…

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • esrvent
  • serevnt
  • serrvent
  • servennt
  • serventt
  • servetn
  • servnet
  • servvent
  • sevrent
  • srevent
  • sservent

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of servent - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

esrvent2serevnt2serrvent1servennt1serventt1servetn2servnet2servvent1
Edit distance from "servent"

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 "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'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 "servent", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

sortant#3,642soutenu#3,644Pologne#3,633accords#3,656

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

relative11 variantstournage11 variantsmodifier11 variantsapparence11 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list