serviteur
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | serviteur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛʁ.vi.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #10,579 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Celui qui est au service d’une personne ou d’une collectivité.
- 2Domestique.
- 3Celui qui se dévoue avec attachement.
- 4Formule de politesse dont on se servait pour finir les lettres et qui est aujourd’hui peu usitée.
- 5Formule de politesse dont on se servait en saluant quelqu’un.
- 6Je 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.
- 7Ustensile servant à présenter des mets composé d’un ou plusieurs plateaux circulaires superposés et reliés autour d’un pied.
- 8Serveur, garçon de café
- 9Captif, à l’époque coloniale.
- 10Objet 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"
Frequency rank: #10,579 in French
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