servilité
\sɛʁ.vi.li.te\
The verdict
“servilité” is uncommon French (frequency #75,220 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,220
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caractère servile, bassesse d’âme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-servilite · servilité · French
servilité · rank #75,220 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,220
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH serpentant
Nearest frequency peer: serpentant (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « servilité »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sempiternel
sempiternel
24,784 corpus weight
- serbo
serbo
24,783 corpus weight
- serpentant
serpentant
24,782 corpus weight
- servilité
servilité
24,781 corpus weight
- sexo
sexo
24,780 corpus weight
- sextuple
sextuple
24,779 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « servilité » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | servilité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛʁ.vi.li.te\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #75,220 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « servilité » en français
Rare enough to double-check
servilité is uncommon French at frequency #75,220 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɛʁ.vi.li.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for servilité in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is servilité, spelled S-E-R-V-I-L-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Caractère servile, bassesse d’âme.
- 2Comportement obséquieux, attitude flatteuse envers les puissants.
- 3Exactitude servile, trop scrupuleuse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how servilité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une presse complaisante jusqu’à la servilité répandait dans le public, depuis les salons jusqu’aux mansardes, les idées les plus fausses et les plus dangereuses.
Nous avons décrit ces ovations des congrès, prolongées un quart d’heure entier et dont on se demande comment elles finissent? Car quelqu’un doit cesser le premier de battre les mains en cadence et quel est celui qui se le permet dans cet environnement de servilité ?
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).