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“desservie” and “desservies” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#29,723
“desservie” frequency rank
#36,350
“desservies” frequency rank
66073
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature desservie desservies
Definition Participe passé féminin singulier de desservir. Participe passé féminin pluriel de desservir.

Same sound, different letters: desservie vs desservies

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. desservie runs 9 letters (CVCCVCCVV) against desservies's 10 (CVCCVCCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

9 ch
desservie
10 ch
desservies

Same sound, different spelling - desservie / desservies

This is the hard kind. desservie and desservies are pronounced identically (\de.sɛʁ.vi\) and both work as averb. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “desservie” sits inside “desservies”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 66073, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

desservie is recorded at frequency rank #29,723, classified as averb, pronounced \de.sɛʁ.vi\. desservies is at rank #36,350, tagged as averb, pronounced \de.sɛʁ.vi\.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 66073, this pair ranks #69,456 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of desservie vs desservies

Shared letters: deirsv. Private to "desservie": -. Private to "desservies": -.

"desservie" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCCVV  ·  "desservies" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCCVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • desservie ← ddesservie · deservie · desesrvie · desserive · desserrvie · desservei · desservvie · dessevrie
  • desservies ← ddesservies · deservies · desesrvies · desserives · desserrvies · desserveis · desserviess · desservise

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "desservie" and "desservies" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\de.sɛʁ.vi\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "desservie" vs "desservies" - which ranks higher?
"desservie" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #29,723 in our French list, against #36,350 for "desservies". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've separated the homophone pair "desservie" / "desservies". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.

  • Full dictionary entry for "desservie" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "desservies" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #69,456 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "desservie" and "desservies" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "desservies vs desservis". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #69,456 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list