# perfectionist

> English word · Noun · IPA /pɚˈfɛk.ʃənɪst/ · frequency rank #33,362

## Definitions
1. Someone who is unwilling to settle for anything that is not perfect or does not meet extremely high standards.
2. Someone who thinks that religious or moral perfection can be attained in this life.
3. One of the Bible Communists or Free-lovers, a small American sect founded by J. H. Noyes (1811-86), which settled at Oneida in 1848, holding that the gospel if accepted secures freedom from sin.

## Etymology
From perfection + -ist.

## Easily confused with
- **perfectionism** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/perfectionism-vs-perfectionist)

## Common misspellings (20)
`eprfectionist`, `pefrectionist`, `perefctionist`, `perfcetionist`, `perfecctionist`, `perfecitonist`, `perfectinoist`, `perfectioinst`, `perfectionisst`, `perfectionistt`, `perfectionits`, `perfectionnist`, `perfectionsit`, `perfectoinist`, `perfecttionist`, `perfetcionist`, `perffectionist`, `perrfectionist`, `pperfectionist`, `prefectionist`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/perfectionist