serveuse

\sɛʁ.vøz\

/\sɛʁ.vøz\/ noun

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The verdict

“serveuse” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,738. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#16,738
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
4
confusable pairs

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

Corpus desk

Index FR-serveuse · serveuse · French

serveuse · rank #16,738 · 11 variants · 4 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #16,738
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH sels

Nearest frequency peer: sels (-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 « serveuse »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « serveuse » 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).

serveuse vs serveur
75% similar
serveuse vs sérieuse
75% similar
serveuse vs serveurs
75% similar

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

Key facts for serveuse
PropertyValue
Headwordserveuse
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sɛʁ.vøz\
Letters8
Frequency rank#16,738
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « serveuse »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).serveusese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « sels » (#16,737), « signez » (#16,739), « selfie » (#16,736). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « serveuse » est au #16,738. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around serveuse (IPA \sɛʁ.vøz\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,738 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Celle qui a pour activité professionnelle de servir à table ou au buffet.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for serveuse, with forms such as "esrveuse", "serevuse", and "serrveuse". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "serveur", "sérieuse", "serveurs", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is serveuse, spelled S-E-R-V-E-U-S-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Celle qui a pour activité professionnelle de servir à table ou au buffet.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. La serveuse la regarda, surprise.
  2. L’établissement est également très populaire pour ses serveuses ultra-sexy qui poussent à la consommation.

This word in other languages

waitress(English)camarera(Español)Kellnerin(Deutsch)garçonete(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • esrveuse
  • serevuse
  • serrveuse
  • servesue
  • serveues
  • serveusse
  • servuese
  • servveuse
  • sevreuse
  • sreveuse
  • sserveuse

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of serveuse - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

esrveuse2serevuse2serrveuse1servesue2serveues2serveusse1servuese2servveuse1
Edit distance from "serveuse"

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

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

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

slogans11 variantsremèdes11 variantsperfect11 variantsvétéran11 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list