surgery: meaning and words from its letters
7 letters · 11 letter points · starts with S · ends with Y
Meaning of surgery
noun
- uncountable, usually
The act or process of medical intervention involving incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body; an instance of this process (a procedure).
Example: Surgery is often necessary to prevent cancer from spreading.
- countable, uncountable
The medical specialty related to the performance of surgical procedures.
- countable, uncountable
A room or department where surgery is performed.
- UK, countable, uncountable
A doctor's office; a clinic.
Example: I dropped in on the surgery as I was passing to show the doctor my hemorrhoids.
Listed forms: surgeries.
Source: Wiktionary — surgery.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for surgery.
noun
a room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations
- operating room
- OR
- operating theater
- operating theatre
noun
a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body
- operation
- surgical operation
- surgical procedure
- surgical process
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is surgery in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
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| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of surgery
S(1) + U(1) + R(1) + G(2) + E(1) + R(1) + Y(4) = 11 points.
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Anagrams of surgery
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
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Shorter words from surgery
43 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in surgery. Showing up to 24, longest first.