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fix

/fɪks/verb, noun

fix is spelled F-I-X: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears 56 times per million words in written English, the 1,822nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, fix means “To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in fix?

Letters3: F-I-X
Syllables1
In writing56 times per million words; the 1,822nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is fix?

Fix appears 56 times per million words in written English, the 1,822nd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce fix?

  • US /fɪks/
  • /fəks/

Fix has one syllable.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-fix.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with fix?

6 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as fix from its last stressed vowel (/ɪks/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of fix

  • fixes present, singular, he/she/it, plural
  • fixing participle, present
  • fixt participle, past
  • fixed participle, past, singular, he/she/it, plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does fix mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

verb

  1. 1

    obsoleteTo pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.

  2. 2

    obsolete(Of a piercing look) to direct at someone.

    He fixed me with a sickly grin, and said, "I told you it wouldn't work!"

  3. 3

    To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.

    A dab of chewing gum will fix your note to the bulletin board.

  4. 4

    To focus or determine (oneself, on a concept); to fixate.

    She's fixed on the idea of becoming a doctor.

  5. 5

    To prevent enemy pawns from advancing by directly opposing the most advanced one with one of one's own pawns so as to threaten to capture any advancing backward pawns.

  6. 6

    To mend, to repair.

    That heater will start a fire if you don't fix it.

  7. 7

    To be immensely pleasurable to.

    Some pizza rolls would fix me right now.

  8. 8

    informalTo prepare (food or drink).

    She fixed dinner for the kids.

noun

  1. 1

    A repair or corrective action.

    That plumber's fix is much better than the first one's.

  2. 2

    A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma; a predicament.

    It rained before we repaired the roof, and were we in a fix!

  3. 3

    slangA single dose of a narcotic drug, especially when injected.

  4. 4

    slangSomething that satisfies a yearning or a craving.

  5. 5

    slangA compulsive desire or thrill.

  6. 6

    A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game, an election, a trial, or a bid.

  7. 7

    An understanding, grasp of something.

  8. 8

    A determination of location.

    We have a fix on your position.

noun

as FIX
  1. 1

    Abbreviation of factor IX (clotting factor IX).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Fix in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchréparer (to mend or repair), fixer (to attach; to affix; to hold in place), préparer (to prepare), truquer, tricher (to make a contest, vote, or gamble unfair), stériliser (to render an animal infertile)
Germanreparieren, flicken (to mend or repair), fixieren, befestigen, anhängen, anheften (to attach; to affix; to hold in place)
Portugueseconsertar, reparar, arrumar (to mend or repair), fixar (to attach; to affix; to hold in place), preparar (to prepare), castrar (to render an animal infertile)
Spanisharreglar, componer, apañar, atufar, enjaquimar (to mend or repair), fijar (to attach; to affix; to hold in place)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does fix come from?

From Middle English fixen, borrowed from Old French *fixer (attested only as ficher, fichier; > English fitch), from fix (“fastened; fixed”), from Latin fīxus (“immovable; steady; stable; fixed”), from fīgō (“to drive in; stick; fasten”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeygʷ- (“to jab; stick; set”). Related to dig.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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