chirurgicalement

\ʃi.ʁyʁ.ʒi.kal.mɑ̃\

/\ʃi.ʁyʁ.ʒi.kal.mɑ̃\/ adv

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chirurgicalement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for chirurgicalement
PropertyValue
Headwordchirurgicalement
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdverb
IPA\ʃi.ʁyʁ.ʒi.kal.mɑ̃\
Letters16
Frequency rank#80,988
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « chirurgicalement » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).chirurgicalementtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « chiller » (#80,987), « chlorures » (#80,989), « chiffonnier » (#80,986). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « chirurgicalement » est au #80,988. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    D'une manière chirurgicale.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how chirurgicalement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "chirurgicalement"?
"chirurgicalement" is spelled C-H-I-R-U-R-G-I-C-A-L-E-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ʃi.ʁyʁ.ʒi.kal.mɑ̃\.
What does "chirurgicalement" mean?
As an adverb, "chirurgicalement" means: D'une manière chirurgicale.
How do you pronounce "chirurgicalement"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "chirurgicalement" is \ʃi.ʁyʁ.ʒi.kal.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "chirurgicalement" come from?
"chirurgicalement" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "chirurgicalement", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 16 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list