chirurgicale
\ʃi.ʁyʁ.ʒi.kal\
The verdict
“chirurgicale” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,133. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,133
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de chirurgical.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chirurgicale · chirurgicale · French
chirurgicale · rank #13,133 · 18 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,133
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cherchons
Nearest frequency peer: cherchons (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « chirurgicale »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- carrée
carrée
86,871 corpus weight
- chantant
chantant
86,870 corpus weight
- cherchons
cherchons
86,869 corpus weight
- chirurgicale
chirurgicale
86,868 corpus weight
- choper
choper
86,867 corpus weight
- cocktails
cocktails
86,866 corpus weight
What this shows « chirurgicale » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chirurgicale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʃi.ʁyʁ.ʒi.kal\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #13,133 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chirurgicale »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around chirurgicale (IPA \ʃi.ʁyʁ.ʒi.kal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #13,133 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de chirurgical.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for chirurgicale, with forms such as "cchirurgicale", "chhirurgicale", and "chirrugicale". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "chirurgicaux", "chirurgicales", "chirurgical", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is chirurgicale, spelled C-H-I-R-U-R-G-I-C-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de chirurgical.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how chirurgicale appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Althusser, néo-positiviste et néo-stalinien dans sa tentative de mettre sur pied un système philosophique du « matérialisme dialectique » scolasticisé, accomplit le plus consciencieusement du monde cette opération chirurgicale : couper le cordon ombilical qui relie Marx à Hegel, instituer la « coupure épistémologique ».
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchirurgicale
- chhirurgicale
- chirrugicale
- chirrurgicale
- chirugricale
- chirurgciale
- chirurggicale
- chirurgiacle
- chirurgicael
- chirurgicalle
- chirurgiccale
- chirurgiclae
- chirurigcale
- chirurrgicale
- chiurrgicale
- chriurgicale
- cihrurgicale
- hcirurgicale
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chirurgicale - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).