servir
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,379
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
servir is aFrenchverb. It means: S’acquitter de certains offices, de certaines obligations envers une personne ou une collectivité. Pronounced \sɛʁ.viʁ\. It ranks #1,379 in French word frequency. Often confused with sévi and sévir.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | servir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sɛʁ.viʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,379 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for servir is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɛʁ.viʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,379 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 21 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for servir, with forms such as "esrvir", "serivr", and "serrvir". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sévi", "sévir", "sortir", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is servir, spelled S-E-R-V-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1S’acquitter de certains offices, de certaines obligations envers une personne ou une collectivité.
- 2S’acquitter de certaines fonctions auprès de quelqu’un comme domestique.
- 3S’acquitter de certaines fonctions auprès de quelqu’un comme domestique.
- 4S’acquitter de certaines fonctions auprès de quelqu’un comme domestique.
- 5Rendre à quelqu’un les mêmes services qu’un domestique rend à son maître.
- 6Fournir ; s’occuper de quelqu’un, lui procurer marchandise ou service.
- 7Rendre de bons offices à quelqu’un, l’aider, le seconder, l’assister.
- 8Faire fonctionner.
- 9Lancer la balle à celui ou celle avec qui l’on joue.
- 10Distribuer les cartes.
- 11Mettre des mets ou des boissons sur la table.
- 12Payer l’intérêt d’une somme constituée en rente.
- 13S’accoupler en vue de la reproduction (dans certaines espèces animales).
- 14Mettre l’animal à mort avant la curée.
- 15Être utile, bon, propre à quelque chose ; convenir.
- 16Être utile à quelqu’un.
- 17Faire le service militaire.
- 18Être d’usage.
- 19Prendre.
- 20Remplir son assiette ou son verre.
- 21Rapporter des faits imaginaires.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: esrvir,serivr,serrvir,servirr,servri,servvir,sevrir,srevir,sservir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for servir
Misspelling Variants of "servir"
Frequency rank: #1,379 in French
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