servile
French, adjective/sɛʁ.vil/
servile is spelled S-E-R-V-I-L-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 43,844th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Servile is a French adjective meaning “servile, slavish, subservient” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui appartient à l’état d’esclave, de domestique”.
What does servile mean in English?
adjective
- 1
servile, slavish, subservient
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui appartient à l’état d’esclave, de domestique. 2. Qui est bas, rampant, sans fierté. 3. Qui s’attache trop à l’imitation d’un modèle, ou à la lettre d’un original.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of servile
- serviles plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce servile?
- /sɛʁ.vil/
- \sɛʁ.vil\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to servile
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is servile in French?
servile appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).