# surgery

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈsɜː.d͡ʒə.ɹi/ · frequency rank #2,371

## Definitions
1. The act or process involving major incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body; an instance of this process (a procedure).
2. The medical specialty related to the performance of surgical procedures.
3. A room or department where surgery is performed.
4. A doctor's office; a clinic.
5. A medical practitioner’s office hours.
6. Any arrangement where people arrive and wait for an interview with certain people, particularly a politician. cf. clinic.
7. A 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.
9. Drastic changes made to anything.

## Etymology
From Middle English surgerie, from Old French surgerie, from Latin chirurgia, from Ancient Greek χειρουργία (kheirourgía), from χείρ (kheír, “hand”) + ἔργον (érgon, “work”). Doublet of chirurgy.

## Easily confused with
- **surry** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/surgery-vs-surry)
- **survey** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/surgery-vs-survey)
- **Surrey** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/surgery-vs-surrey)
- **surge** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/surge-vs-surgery)
- **surely** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/surely-vs-surgery)
- **surfer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/surfer-vs-surgery)
- **Sergey** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sergey-vs-surgery)
- **sugary** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sugary-vs-surgery)
- **surged** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/surged-vs-surgery)
- **surety** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/surety-vs-surgery)
- **surgeon** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/surgeon-vs-surgery)
- **sorcery** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sorcery-vs-surgery)

## Common misspellings (11)
`srugery`, `ssurgery`, `sugrery`, `suregry`, `surgerry`, `surgeryy`, `surgeyr`, `surggery`, `surgrey`, `surrgery`, `usrgery`

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