serviteur

/\sɛʁ.vi.tœʁ\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#10,579

in French word usage

Misspellings

13

tracked variants

Confusables

3

similar word pairs

serviteur is aFrenchnoun. It means: Celui qui est au service d’une personne ou d’une collectivité. Pronounced \sɛʁ.vi.tœʁ\. Often confused with serviteurs and serveur.

Key facts for serviteur
PropertyValue
Headwordserviteur
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sɛʁ.vi.tœʁ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#10,579
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of serviteur in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for serviteur is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɛʁ.vi.tœʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #10,579 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for serviteur, with forms such as "esrviteur", "serivteur", and "serrviteur". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "serviteurs", "serveur", "Servier", 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 serviteur, spelled S-E-R-V-I-T-E-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Celui qui est au service d’une personne ou d’une collectivité.
  2. 2
    Domestique.
  3. 3
    Celui qui se dévoue avec attachement.
  4. 4
    Formule de politesse dont on se servait pour finir les lettres et qui est aujourd’hui peu usitée.
  5. 5
    Formule de politesse dont on se servait en saluant quelqu’un.
  6. 6
    Je suis votre serviteur, je suis son serviteur se dit à quelqu’un ou de quelqu’un pour marquer que l’on refuse ce qu’il demande ou ce qu’il propose, ou que l’on n’est point du même avis.
  7. 7
    Ustensile servant à présenter des mets composé d’un ou plusieurs plateaux circulaires superposés et reliés autour d’un pied.
  8. 8
    Serveur, garçon de café
  9. 9
    Captif, à l’époque coloniale.
  10. 10
    Objet servant à ranger les accessoires de cheminée.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: esrviteur,serivteur,serrviteur,servietur,serviteru,serviteurr,servitteur,servituer,servtieur,servviteur,sevriteur,sreviteur,sserviteur

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for serviteur

Misspelling Variants of "serviteur"

esrviteur9serivteur9serrviteur10servietur9serviteru9serviteurr10servitteur10servituer9
Misspelling Variants of "serviteur"

Frequency rank: #10,579 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "serviteur"?
"serviteur" is spelled S-E-R-V-I-T-E-U-R. The IPA pronunciation is \sɛʁ.vi.tœʁ\.
What does "serviteur" mean?
As a noun, "serviteur" means: Celui qui est au service d’une personne ou d’une collectivité.
What words are commonly confused with "serviteur"?
"serviteur" is commonly confused with "serviteurs", "serveur", "Servier". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "serviteur"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "serviteur" is \sɛʁ.vi.tœʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "serviteur" come from?
"serviteur" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.