surgery

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The verdict

“surgery” is uncommon German (frequency #77,388 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#77,388
frequency rank, German
8,027
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - chirurgischer Eingriff, Operation

Corpus desk

Index DE-surgery · surgery · German

surgery · rank #77,388 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #77,388
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,027
  • PHOTO-FINISH Supermarktes

Nearest frequency peer: Supermarktes (-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.

Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „surgery“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „surgery“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for surgery
PropertyValue
Headwordsurgery
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[…]
Letters7
Frequency rank#77,388
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „surgery“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.surgeryfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Ticks laufen logarithmisch; jeder ist rund zehnmal seltener. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Supermarktes“ (#77,387), „Sulingen“ (#77,386), „sudden“ (#77,385). Unter 8,027 „S“-Lemmata liegt „surgery“ bei #77,388. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

surgery is uncommon German at frequency #77,388 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.

surgery doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is surgery, spelled S-U-R-G-E-R-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    chirurgischer Eingriff, Operation
  2. 2
    Arztpraxis
  3. 3
    Operationssaal

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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "surgery"?
"surgery" is spelled S-U-R-G-E-R-Y. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "surgery" mean?
As a noun, "surgery" means: chirurgischer Eingriff, Operation
How do you pronounce "surgery"?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "surgery", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Sturmes#77,381Teilort#77,405starrer#77,363stapelt#77,362

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list