chirurgicalement
\ʃi.ʁyʁ.ʒi.kal.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“chirurgicalement” is uncommon French (frequency #80,988 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,988
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D'une manière chirurgicale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chirurgicalement · chirurgicalement · French
chirurgicalement · rank #80,988 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,988
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chiller
Nearest frequency peer: chiller (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « chirurgicalement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Chesnais
Chesnais
19,016 corpus weight
- chiffonnier
chiffonnier
19,015 corpus weight
- chiller
chiller
19,014 corpus weight
- chirurgical…
chirurgicalement
19,013 corpus weight
- chlorures
chlorures
19,012 corpus weight
- chois
chois
19,011 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chirurgicalement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chirurgicalement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \ʃi.ʁyʁ.ʒi.kal.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Frequency rank | #80,988 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chirurgicalement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chirurgicalement is uncommon French at frequency #80,988 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed \ʃi.ʁyʁ.ʒi.kal.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "D'une manière chirurgicale.".
No misspelling variants are generated for chirurgicalement in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is chirurgicalement, spelled C-H-I-R-U-R-G-I-C-A-L-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1D'une manière chirurgicale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how chirurgicalement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est d’ailleurs la raison pour laquelle il est tout à fait possible de micro-injecter un spermatozoïde provenant aussi bien du testicule où il aura été prélevé chirurgicalement que de l’éjaculat.
This word in other languages
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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