cirugía plástica
[siɾuˈxia ˈplast̪ika]
The verdict
“cirugía plástica” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Especialidad médica que tiene por objeto la corrección y mejoramiento de anormalidades de origen congénito, adquirido, tumoral o involutiva que requieran reparación o reposición de la forma corpora...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cirugía plástica |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [siɾuˈxia ˈplast̪ika] |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cirugía plástica” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cirugía plástica is 16 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [siɾuˈxia ˈplast̪ika]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Especialidad médica que tiene por objeto la corrección y mejoramiento de anormalidades de origen congénito, adquirido, tumoral o involutiva que requieran reparación o reposición de la forma corpora...".
No misspelling variants are generated for cirugía plástica in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is cirugía plástica, spelled C-I-R-U-G-Í-A- -P-L-Á-S-T-I-C-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Especialidad médica que tiene por objeto la corrección y mejoramiento de anormalidades de origen congénito, adquirido, tumoral o involutiva que requieran reparación o reposición de la forma corporal y su función. Mediante cirugía se da tratamiento para reconstruir las deformidades y proporcionar función transportando tejidos del mismo cuerpo con múltiples técnicas.
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-I-R-U-G-Í-A- -P-L-Á-S-T-I-C-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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