salpingectomy
/sæl.pənˈd͡ʒɛk.tə.mi/noun
salpingectomy is spelled S-A-L-P-I-N-G-E-C-T-O-M-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is salphingectomy: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 154 of all searches for the word. Salpingectomy is a noun meaning “The surgical removal of one or both fallopian tubes, usually performed to treat conditions such as ectopic…”. The plural of salpingectomy is salpingectomies.
How do you spell salpingectomy?
Salpingectomy is spelled S-A-L-P-I-N-G-E-C-T-O-M-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 154 of the searches for salpingectomy 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 salpingectomy mean?
noun
- 1
The surgical removal of one or both fallopian tubes, usually performed to treat conditions such as ectopic pregnancy, infection, cancer, or to reduce the risk of ovarian cancer.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce salpingectomy?
- US /sæl.pənˈd͡ʒɛk.tə.mi/
Salpingectomy has 5 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of salpingectomy
- salpingectomies plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is salpingectomy?
Salpingectomy appears about once in every 52 million words in written English, the 225,584th 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).
Salpingectomy in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | salpingectomía |
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 salpingectomy come from?
From salping- (“of or relating to the salpinx”) + -ectomy (“surgical removal”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).