perfectionniste
\pɛʁ.fɛk.sjɔ.nist\
The verdict
“perfectionniste” has 21 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,526. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,526
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 21
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a tendance à rechercher la perfection.
Corpus desk
Index FR-perfectionniste · perfectionniste · French
perfectionniste · rank #36,526 · 21 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,526
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 21 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pavée
Nearest frequency peer: pavée (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « perfectionniste »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Patriot
Patriot
63,478 corpus weight
- pavot
pavot
63,477 corpus weight
- pavée
pavée
63,476 corpus weight
- perfectionn…
perfectionniste
63,475 corpus weight
- permettrai
permettrai
63,473 corpus weight
- permises
permises
63,472 corpus weight
What this shows « perfectionniste » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | perfectionniste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.fɛk.sjɔ.nist\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #36,526 |
| Misspellings tracked | 21 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « perfectionniste »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 21 spelling variants around perfectionniste (IPA \pɛʁ.fɛk.sjɔ.nist\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #36,526 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui a tendance à rechercher la perfection.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 21 likely wrong-spelling variants for perfectionniste, with forms such as "eprfectionniste", "pefrectionniste", and "perefctionniste". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is perfectionniste, spelled P-E-R-F-E-C-T-I-O-N-N-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Qui a tendance à rechercher la perfection.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how perfectionniste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les chanceux sont du groupe A, car ils sont considérés comme ordonnés, perfectionnistes, ou du groupe O (donneur universel), dotés de qualités de leaders.
Perfectionniste dans ses rôles et adepte de son professeur d’art dramatique Stella Adler, qui demandait à ses élèves de « défictionner » la fiction, il apprit à jouer du saxophone pour le film New York, New York, un film musical de Martin Scorsese sorti en 1977.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eprfectionniste
- pefrectionniste
- perefctionniste
- perfcetionniste
- perfecctionniste
- perfecitonniste
- perfectinoniste
- perfectioninste
- perfectioniste
- perfectionniset
- perfectionnisste
- perfectionnistte
- perfectionnitse
- perfectionnsite
- perfectoinniste
- perfecttionniste
- perfetcionniste
- perffectionniste
- perrfectionniste
- pperfectionniste
- prefectionniste
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of perfectionniste - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 15 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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