chirurgie
French, noun/ʃi.ʁyʁ.ʒi/
chirurgie is spelled C-H-I-R-U-R-G-I-E (9 letters) and appears 14 times per million words in written French, the 5,230th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chirurgie is a French feminine noun meaning “surgery, medical operation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Partie de l’art médical qui consiste à faire avec la main ou à l’aide d’instruments certaines opérations sur…”.
What does chirurgie mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininesurgery, medical operation
- 2
femininesurgery (the branch of medicine)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Partie de l’art médical qui consiste à faire avec la main ou à l’aide d’instruments certaines opérations sur le corps de l’homme.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of chirurgie
- chirurgies plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chirurgie?
- /ʃi.ʁyʁ.ʒi/
- \ʃi.ʁyʁ.ʒi\
- [ʃi.ʁyʁ.ʒi]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to chirurgie
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is chirurgie in French?
chirurgie appears 14 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).