serviettes

\sɛʁ.vjɛt\

/\sɛʁ.vjɛt\/ noun

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The verdict

“serviettes” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,865. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#12,865
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

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

Corpus desk

Index FR-serviettes · serviettes · French

serviettes · rank #12,865 · 13 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #12,865
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH semer

Nearest frequency peer: semer (-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 « serviettes »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « serviettes » 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).

serviettes vs serviette
90% similar

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

Key facts for serviettes
PropertyValue
Headwordserviettes
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sɛʁ.vjɛt\
Letters10
Frequency rank#12,865
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « serviettes »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).serviettesse 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 « semer » (#12,864), « sirène » (#12,866), « scie » (#12,863). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « serviettes » est au #12,865. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around serviettes (IPA \sɛʁ.vjɛt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,865 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de serviette.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for serviettes, with forms such as "esrviettes", "serivettes", and "serrviettes". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "serviette", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is serviettes, spelled S-E-R-V-I-E-T-T-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de serviette.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Et malgré cela, certains vendeurs font l’erreur de "décapricier" le client, en économisant sur les serviettes, les pailles, les couverts en plastique, les sachets personnalisés ou de qualité…

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • esrviettes
  • serivettes
  • serrviettes
  • serveittes
  • servietes
  • servietets
  • serviettess
  • serviettse
  • servitetes
  • servviettes
  • sevriettes
  • sreviettes
  • sserviettes

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

esrviettes2serivettes2serrviettes1serveittes2servietes1servietets2serviettess1serviettse2
Edit distance from "serviettes"

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 "serviettes"?
"serviettes" is spelled S-E-R-V-I-E-T-T-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \sɛʁ.vjɛt\.
What does "serviettes" mean?
As a noun, "serviettes" means: Pluriel de serviette.
What words are commonly confused with "serviettes"?
"serviettes" is commonly confused with "serviette". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "serviettes"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "serviettes" is \sɛʁ.vjɛt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "serviettes" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list