serveur
\sɛʁ.vœʁ\
The verdict
“serveur” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #4,378 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #4,378
- frequency rank, French
- 7
- letters
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Celui qui a pour activité professionnelle de servir à table ou au buffet.
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 | serveur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛʁ.vœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #4,378 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “serveur” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for serveur is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɛʁ.vœʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,378 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
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
- 1Celui qui a pour activité professionnelle de servir à table ou au buffet.
- 2Matériel, logiciel ou système informatique destiné à fournir un service déterminé à d’autres systèmes informatiques ou à des utilisateurs connectés sur un réseau.
- 3Sportif qui sert, ou est spécialisé dans le service, par exemple au tennis.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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.
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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Using “serveur”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-E-R-V-E-U-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \sɛʁ.vœʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “servir” - see the side-by-side comparison. serveur vs servir
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.