surgeon
French, noun/syʁ.ʒɔ̃/
surgeon is spelled S-U-R-G-E-O-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written French, the 118,416th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Surgeon is a French masculine noun meaning “shoot (new growth from the trunk of a tree)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rejeton qui sort du tronc, du pied d’un arbre”.
What does surgeon mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineshoot (new growth from the trunk of a tree)
- 2
masculineoffshoot, rebirth (something that is reborn or grows out of something else again)
- 3
archaicmasculineoffspring, progeny (descendant of someone)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Rejeton qui sort du tronc, du pied d’un arbre. 2. Ce qui renaît, ce qui repousse. 3. Descendant.
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 surgeon
- surgeons plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce surgeon?
- /syʁ.ʒɔ̃/
- \syʁ.ʒɔ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is surgeon in French?
surgeon appears about once in every 13 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).