Chirurgie
\çiʁʊʁˈɡiː\
The verdict
“Chirurgie” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,225. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,225
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chirurgie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chirurgie · Chirurgie · French
Chirurgie · rank #5,225 · 13 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,225
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chemise
Nearest frequency peer: chemise (-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 « Chirurgie »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- chasseurs
chasseurs
94,779 corpus weight
- chaussée
chaussée
94,778 corpus weight
- chemise
chemise
94,777 corpus weight
- Chirurgie
Chirurgie
94,776 corpus weight
- Christine
Christine
94,775 corpus weight
- circonscrip…
circonscription
94,774 corpus weight
What this shows « Chirurgie » 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 | Chirurgie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \çiʁʊʁˈɡiː\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #5,225 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Chirurgie »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Chirurgie (IPA \çiʁʊʁˈɡiː\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,225 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Chirurgie.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Chirurgie, with forms such as "cchirurgie", "chhirurgie", and "chirrugie". 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, "chirurgien", "chirurgies", "chirurgiens", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Chirurgie, spelled C-H-I-R-U-R-G-I-E.
Definition
- 1Chirurgie.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchirurgie
- chhirurgie
- chirrugie
- chirrurgie
- chirugrie
- chirurgei
- chirurggie
- chirurige
- chirurrgie
- chiurrgie
- chriurgie
- cihrurgie
- hcirurgie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Chirurgie - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Chirurgie", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).