surgery
/ˈsɝ.d͡ʒə.ɹi/noun
surgery is spelled S-U-R-G-E-R-Y: 7 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 43 times per million words in written English, the 2,339th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, surgery means “The act or process of medical intervention involving incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body; an instance of this process (a…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of surgery is surgeries.
How many letters and syllables are in surgery?
| Letters | 7: S-U-R-G-E-R-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 43 times per million words; the 2,339th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
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).
How common is surgery?
Surgery appears 43 times per million words in written English, the 2,339th 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 surgery?
- UK /ˈsɜː.d͡ʒə.ɹi/
- US /ˈsɝ.d͡ʒə.ɹi/
Surgery has 3 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: En-us-surgery.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of surgery
- surgeries plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does surgery mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act or process of medical intervention involving incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body; an instance of this process (a procedure).
Surgery is often necessary to prevent cancer from spreading.
- 2
The medical specialty related to the performance of surgical procedures.
- 3
A room or department where surgery is performed.
- 4
UKA doctor's office; a clinic.
I dropped in on the surgery as I was passing to show the doctor my hemorrhoids.
- 5
UKA medical practitioner’s office hours.
- 6
UKAny arrangement where people arrive and wait for an interview with certain people, particularly a politician. cf. clinic.
Our MP will be holding a surgery in the village hall on Tuesday.
- 7
slangA pre-packaged bankruptcy or "quick bankruptcy".
- 8
The production of a manifold by removing parts of one manifold and replacing them with corresponding parts of others.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate surgery?
Wiktionary records 3 abbreviations of surgery: Sx, surg, surg..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Surgery in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | chirurgie, opération , salle opératoire , cabinet |
| German | Chirurgie, Operation , Operationssaal , Ordinationsraum |
| Portuguese | operação, cirurgia , sala de cirurgia/operação , consultório |
| Spanish | operación, cirugía , quirófano, pabellón , consulta |
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.