perfectionnisme
\pɛʁ.fɛk.sjɔ.nizm\
The verdict
“perfectionnisme” is uncommon French (frequency #75,082 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,082
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tendance à estimer inacceptable un travail qui ne s’approche pas de la perfection.
Corpus desk
Index FR-perfectionnisme · perfectionnisme · French
perfectionnisme · rank #75,082 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,082
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH perfections
Nearest frequency peer: perfections (+1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « perfectionnisme »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pelure
pelure
24,922 corpus weight
- pelés
pelés
24,921 corpus weight
- perfectionn…
perfectionnisme
24,919 corpus weight
- perfections
perfections
24,918 corpus weight
- Pernot
Pernot
24,917 corpus weight
- perpétuée
perpétuée
24,916 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « perfectionnisme » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | perfectionnisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.fɛk.sjɔ.nizm\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #75,082 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « perfectionnisme » en français
Rare enough to double-check
perfectionnisme is uncommon French at frequency #75,082 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɛʁ.fɛk.sjɔ.nizm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tendance à estimer inacceptable un travail qui ne s’approche pas de la perfection.".
perfectionnisme doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is perfectionnisme, spelled P-E-R-F-E-C-T-I-O-N-N-I-S-M-E.
Definition
- 1Tendance à estimer inacceptable un travail qui ne s’approche pas de la perfection.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how perfectionnisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je crois vous avoir déjà dit que vous vous appliquez un peu trop, il y a des circonstances où le perfectionnisme n’est pas de mise : c’est un frein à l’efficacité…
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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