# surgeon

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈsɜːd͡ʒən/ · frequency rank #5,844

## Definitions
1. One who performs surgery; a doctor who performs operations on people or animals.
2. A surgeonfish.

## Etymology
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.

## Easily confused with
- **surgery** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/surgeon-vs-surgery)
- **surge** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/surge-vs-surgeon)
- **surged** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/surged-vs-surgeon)
- **sturgeon** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sturgeon-vs-surgeon)

## Common misspellings (10)
`srugeon`, `ssurgeon`, `sugreon`, `suregon`, `surgeno`, `surgeonn`, `surggeon`, `surgoen`, `surrgeon`, `usrgeon`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/surgeon