servo
\ˈser.vo\
The verdict
“servo” is uncommon French (frequency #69,423 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,423
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Service.
Corpus desk
Index FR-servo · servo · French
servo · rank #69,423 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,423
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH serpentins
Nearest frequency peer: serpentins (-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 « servo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- seba
seba
30,582 corpus weight
- sentiraient
sentiraient
30,580 corpus weight
- serpentins
serpentins
30,579 corpus weight
- servo
servo
30,578 corpus weight
- sexologie
sexologie
30,576 corpus weight
- sextant
sextant
30,575 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « servo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | servo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈser.vo\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #69,423 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « servo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
servo is uncommon French at frequency #69,423 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈser.vo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
servo has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is servo, spelled S-E-R-V-O.
Definition
- 1Service.
- 2Service.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how servo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Merkrede la 10-an de decembro diversaj uzantoj de Pasporta Servo skribis al la centra retpoŝta adreso de la servo.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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