cholecystectomy
noun
cholecystectomy is spelled C-H-O-L-E-C-Y-S-T-E-C-T-O-M-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is cholestectomy: about 170 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 84 of all searches for the word. Cholecystectomy is a noun meaning “The surgical procedure to remove the gall bladder”. The plural of cholecystectomy is cholecystectomies.
How do you spell cholecystectomy?
Cholecystectomy is spelled C-H-O-L-E-C-Y-S-T-E-C-T-O-M-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 84 of the searches for cholecystectomy in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
What does cholecystectomy mean?
noun
- 1
The surgical procedure to remove the gall bladder.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of cholecystectomy
- cholecystectomies plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is cholecystectomy?
Cholecystectomy appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 119,826th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you abbreviate cholecystectomy?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of cholecystectomy: chole.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Cholecystectomy in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense surgical procedure:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | cholécystectomie |
| German | Cholezystektomie, Gallenblasenentfernung |
| Portuguese | colecistectomia |
| Spanish | colecistectomía |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does cholecystectomy come from?
From cholecyst + -ectomy.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).