servir

\sɛʁ.viʁ\

/\sɛʁ.viʁ\/ verb

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The verdict

“servir” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,379. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#1,379
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - S’acquitter de certains offices, de certaines obligations envers une personne ou une collectivité.

Corpus desk

Index FR-servir · servir · French

servir · rank #1,379 · 9 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #1,379
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH secondes

Nearest frequency peer: secondes (-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 « servir »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « servir » 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).

servir vs sévi
50% similar
servir vs sévir
67% similar
servir vs sortir
67% similar

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

Key facts for servir
PropertyValue
Headwordservir
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\sɛʁ.viʁ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#1,379
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « servir »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.servirse place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « secondes » (#1,378), « sœur » (#1,380), « salut » (#1,377). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « servir » est au #1,379. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around servir (IPA \sɛʁ.viʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #1,379 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 21 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for servir, with forms such as "esrvir", "serivr", and "serrvir". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sévi", "sévir", "sortir", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

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 servir, spelled S-E-R-V-I-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    S’acquitter de certains offices, de certaines obligations envers une personne ou une collectivité.
  2. 2
    S’acquitter de certaines fonctions auprès de quelqu’un comme domestique.
  3. 3
    S’acquitter de certaines fonctions auprès de quelqu’un comme domestique.
  4. 4
    S’acquitter de certaines fonctions auprès de quelqu’un comme domestique.
  5. 5
    Rendre à quelqu’un les mêmes services qu’un domestique rend à son maître.
  6. 6
    Fournir ; s’occuper de quelqu’un, lui procurer marchandise ou service.
  7. 7
    Rendre de bons offices à quelqu’un, l’aider, le seconder, l’assister.
  8. 8
    Faire fonctionner.
  9. 9
    Lancer la balle à celui ou celle avec qui l’on joue.
  10. 10
    Distribuer les cartes.
  11. 11
    Mettre des mets ou des boissons sur la table.
  12. 12
    Payer l’intérêt d’une somme constituée en rente.
  13. 13
    S’accoupler en vue de la reproduction (dans certaines espèces animales).
  14. 14
    Mettre l’animal à mort avant la curée.
  15. 15
    Être utile, bon, propre à quelque chose ; convenir.
  16. 16
    Être utile à quelqu’un.
  17. 17
    Faire le service militaire.
  18. 18
    Être d’usage.
  19. 19
    Prendre.
  20. 20
    Remplir son assiette ou son verre.
  21. 21
    Rapporter des faits imaginaires.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Servir son pays.
  2. Servir l’État.

This word in other languages

serve(English)servir(Español)dienen(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • esrvir
  • serivr
  • serrvir
  • servirr
  • servri
  • servvir
  • sevrir
  • srevir
  • sservir

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

esrvir2serivr2serrvir1servirr1servri2servvir1sevrir2srevir2
Edit distance from "servir"

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 "servir"?
"servir" is spelled S-E-R-V-I-R. The IPA pronunciation is \sɛʁ.viʁ\.
What does "servir" mean?
As a verb, "servir" means: S’acquitter de certains offices, de certaines obligations envers une personne ou une collectivité.
What words are commonly confused with "servir"?
"servir" is commonly confused with "sévi", "sévir", "sortir". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "servir"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "servir" is \sɛʁ.viʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "servir" come from?
"servir" 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 "servir", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

actuel#1,384désolé#1,390faveur#1,392gueule#1,363

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

hauteur9 variantsmérite9 variantscourage9 variantsenvoyé9 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list