serveur

\sɛʁ.vœʁ\

/\sɛʁ.vœʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“serveur” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,378. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#4,378
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
16
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui a pour activité professionnelle de servir à table ou au buffet.

Corpus desk

Index FR-serveur · serveur · French

serveur · rank #4,378 · 10 variants · 16 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #4,378
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH secondaires

Nearest frequency peer: secondaires (-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 « serveur »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « serveur » 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).

serveur vs servir
71% similar
serveur vs servez
71% similar
serveur vs surfeur
71% similar

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

Key facts for serveur
PropertyValue
Headwordserveur
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sɛʁ.vœʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#4,378
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs16
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « serveur »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.serveurse 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 « secondaires » (#4,377), « signaler » (#4,379), « Scott » (#4,376). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « serveur » est au #4,378. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around serveur (IPA \sɛʁ.vœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,378 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for serveur, with forms such as "esrveur", "serevur", and "serrveur". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "servir", "servez", "surfeur", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is serveur, spelled S-E-R-V-E-U-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Celui qui a pour activité professionnelle de servir à table ou au buffet.
  2. 2
    Matériel, logiciel ou système informatique destiné à fournir un service déterminé à d’autres systèmes informatiques ou à des utilisateurs connectés sur un réseau.
  3. 3
    Sportif qui sert, ou est spécialisé dans le service, par exemple au tennis.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Tonton Mbagnick appelle le serveur et commande un ballon de Kir Royal et demande à Meïssa Bigué ce qu'il voulait prendre « Une limonade pour moi.
  2. Deux Bellinis ! commanda Ettore à l’un des serveurs.

Synonyms

garçongarçon de café

This word in other languages

server(English)camarero(Español)Kellner(Deutsch)servidor(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • esrveur
  • serevur
  • serrveur
  • serveru
  • serveurr
  • servuer
  • servveur
  • sevreur
  • sreveur
  • sserveur

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

esrveur2serevur2serrveur1serveru2serveurr1servuer2servveur1sevreur2
Edit distance from "serveur"

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 "serveur"?
"serveur" is spelled S-E-R-V-E-U-R. The IPA pronunciation is \sɛʁ.vœʁ\.
What does "serveur" mean?
As a noun, "serveur" means: Celui qui a pour activité professionnelle de servir à table ou au buffet.
What words are commonly confused with "serveur"?
"serveur" is commonly confused with "servir", "servez", "surfeur". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "serveur"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "serveur" is \sɛʁ.vœʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "serveur" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

sixième#4,380restait#4,372tribune#4,388portait#4,362

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

abandon10 variantsouverts10 variantsIrlande10 variantsexister10 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list