Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

perficient

/pə(ɹ)ˈfɪʃənt/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: per-fi-cient
IPA: /pə(ɹ)ˈfɪʃənt/

17

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

One who performs or perfects a work.

noun

One who endows a charity.

adj

Making or doing thoroughly; efficient; effectual.

Example Sentences

"And , in general , the king being the sole founder of all civil corporations , and the endower the perficient founder of all eleemosynary ones"
"Religion, as accurately defined, embraces only the perficient relations between divinity and man, and the mode in which such relations operate."

Inflected Forms

perficients (plural) more perficient (comparative) most perficient (superlative)

Derived Forms

perficiently

Rhymes With

efficient cost-efficient sufficient self-sufficient insufficient inefficient coefficient deficient proficient omniscient immunodeficient haploinsufficient

Questions

How do you pronounce perficient?: The recorded pronunciation is /pə(ɹ)ˈfɪʃənt/.
What does perficient mean?: One who performs or perfects a work.

How to pronounce perficient

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