nephrectomy
noun
nephrectomy is spelled N-E-P-H-R-E-C-T-O-M-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is nefrectomy: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 161 of all searches for the word. Nephrectomy is a noun meaning “The surgical removal of a kidney”. The plural of nephrectomy is nephrectomies.
How do you spell nephrectomy?
Nephrectomy is spelled N-E-P-H-R-E-C-T-O-M-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 162 of the searches for nephrectomy 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 nephrectomy mean?
noun
- 1
The surgical removal of a kidney.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of nephrectomy
- nephrectomies plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is nephrectomy?
Nephrectomy appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 121,279th 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).
Nephrectomy in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the surgical removal of a kidney:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | nefrectomía |
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 nephrectomy come from?
From nephr- + -ectomy.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).