surgeon

Other forms of surgeon

plural

surgeons·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about surgeon

What does surgeon mean?

surgeon means "a physician who specializes in surgery".

How many syllables are in surgeon?

surgeon has 2 syllables: sur-geon. The stress falls on "sur". In IPA it is /ˈsɝdʒən/.

What is another word for surgeon?

Close synonyms include operating surgeon, sawbones. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is surgeon a common word?

surgeon is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with surgeon?

1 word rhymes with surgeon. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.