chirurgien
\ʃi.ʁyʁ.ʒjɛ̃\
The verdict
“chirurgien” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,935. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,935
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui pratique la chirurgie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chirurgien · chirurgien · French
chirurgien · rank #6,935 · 15 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,935
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH char
Nearest frequency peer: char (-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 « chirurgien »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bouffer
bouffer
93,069 corpus weight
- boys
boys
93,068 corpus weight
- char
char
93,067 corpus weight
- chirurgien
chirurgien
93,066 corpus weight
- complicité
complicité
93,065 corpus weight
- complémenta…
complémentaires
93,064 corpus weight
What this shows « chirurgien » 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 | chirurgien |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃi.ʁyʁ.ʒjɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #6,935 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chirurgien »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around chirurgien (IPA \ʃi.ʁyʁ.ʒjɛ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,935 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Celui qui pratique la chirurgie.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for chirurgien, with forms such as "cchirurgien", "chhirurgien", and "chirrugien". 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, "chirurgies", "chirurgiens", "Chirurgie", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 chirurgien, spelled C-H-I-R-U-R-G-I-E-N.
Definition
- 1Celui qui pratique la chirurgie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chirurgien appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Deux sortes de personnes contractent nécessairement beaucoup d'insensibilité : les chirurgiens, les prêtres. A voir toujours souffrir et mourir, on meurt peu à peu soi-même dans les facultés sympathiques.
Scaër s'approcha du lit d'Alain qui était entre les mains du chirurgien et de ses aides, […].
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchirurgien
- chhirurgien
- chirrugien
- chirrurgien
- chirugrien
- chirurgein
- chirurggien
- chirurgienn
- chirurgine
- chirurigen
- chirurrgien
- chiurrgien
- chriurgien
- cihrurgien
- hcirurgien
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chirurgien - 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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).