surgeon
/ˈsɝd͡ʒən/noun
surgeon is spelled S-U-R-G-E-O-N: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 13 times per million words in written English, the 5,778th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, surgeon means “One who performs surgery; a doctor who performs operations on people or animals” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of surgeon is surgeons.
How many letters and syllables are in surgeon?
| Letters | 7: S-U-R-G-E-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 13 times per million words; the 5,778th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is surgeon?
Surgeon appears 13 times per million words in written English, the 5,778th 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 pronounce surgeon?
- UK /ˈsɜːd͡ʒən/
- US /ˈsɝd͡ʒən/
Surgeon has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-surgeon.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with surgeon?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as surgeon from its last stressed vowel (/ɜɹdʒən/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of surgeon
- surgeons plural
- chirurgeon
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does surgeon mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
One who performs surgery; a doctor who performs operations on people or animals.
The surgeon refused to operate because the patient was her son.
- 2
A surgeonfish.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate surgeon?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of surgeon: surg..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Surgeon in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense doctor who performs surgery:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | chirurgien, chirurgienne |
| German | Chirurg, Operateur, Wundarzt |
| Portuguese | cirurgião |
| Spanish | cirujano, cirujana, quirurgo |
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 surgeon come from?
From Middle English surgien, borrowed from Anglo-Norman surgien, sirogen (Old French surgien et al.), from Vulgar Latin *chīrurgiānus, from Latin chīrūrgia (“surgery”), from chīrurgus (“surgeon”), borrowed from Ancient Greek χειρουργός (kheirourgós), from χείρ (kheír, “hand”) + ἔργον (érgon, “work”). Doublet of chirurgeon.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).