pleasure seeker

noun

"pleasure-seeker" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“pleasure seeker” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
15
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A person who is motivated by personal enjoyment; a hedonist.

Corpus desk

Index EN-pleasure-seeker · pleasure seeker · English

pleasure seeker · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 15 letters
  • VOW-7 7 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "P" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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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.

Key facts for pleasure seeker
PropertyValue
Headwordpleasure seeker
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “pleasure seeker” in English

pleasure seekersits beyond the 100,000 most-frequent English words, in the long tail of technical, archaic, or otherwise rare vocabulary where spelling doubt tends to strike hardest.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

pleasure seeker is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for pleasure seeker, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is pleasure seeker, spelled P-L-E-A-S-U-R-E- -S-E-E-K-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    A person who is motivated by personal enjoyment; a hedonist.
  2. 2
    A person engaged in an activity for the pleasure of it.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how pleasure seeker appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Our eyes turned to the great bow-window and we looked out at the summer beauty of the country-side, the long slopes of heather, the great country-houses, the cozy farms, the pleasure-seekers upon the links.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pleasure seeker"?
"pleasure seeker" is spelled P-L-E-A-S-U-R-E- -S-E-E-K-E-R.
What does "pleasure seeker" mean?
As a noun, "pleasure seeker" means: A person who is motivated by personal enjoyment; a hedonist.
What language does "pleasure seeker" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list