services

\sɛʁ.vis\

/\sɛʁ.vis\/ noun

The verdict

“services” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #485. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#485
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
7
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de service.

Corpus desk

Index FR-services · services · French

services · rank #485 · 12 variants · 7 confusables

  • FREQ-CORE #485
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH presque

Nearest frequency peer: presque (-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 « services »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « services » 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).

services vs servis
75% similar
services vs sévices
75% similar
services vs servies
88% similar

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

Key facts for services
PropertyValue
Headwordservices
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sɛʁ.vis\
Letters8
Frequency rank#485
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « services »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).servicesse 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 « presque » (#484), « tellement » (#486), « peine » (#483). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « services » est au #485. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around services (IPA \sɛʁ.vis\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #485 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de service.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for services, with forms such as "esrvices", "serivces", and "serrvices". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "servis", "sévices", "servies", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is services, spelled S-E-R-V-I-C-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de service.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Quels que soient les services que je pourrai vous rendre, je m’arrangerai pour que nous soyons entièrement quittes.
  2. Pour avoir un rôle masticatoire il faut d’abord que les dents soient saines et, pour que nos dents soient saines, il nous faut un système de services sociaux qui, en soi, soit sain et je crois que cette loi vient "désassainir" ce système que nous avons.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • esrvices
  • serivces
  • serrvices
  • servcies
  • servicces
  • servicess
  • servicse
  • serviecs
  • servvices
  • sevrices
  • srevices
  • sservices

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of services - 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.

esrvices2serivces2serrvices1servcies2servicces1servicess1servicse2serviecs2
Edit distance from "services"

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 "services"?
"services" is spelled S-E-R-V-I-C-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \sɛʁ.vis\.
What does "services" mean?
As a noun, "services" means: Pluriel de service.
What words are commonly confused with "services"?
"services" is commonly confused with "servis", "sévices", "servies". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "services"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "services" is \sɛʁ.vis\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "services" come from?
"services" 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 "services", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

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

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list