fix someone's wagon
"fix-someone-s-wagon" is a 16-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“fix someone's wagon” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To cause injury, distress, or inconvenience to someone, especially as punishment or as a comeuppance.
Corpus desk
Index EN-fix-someone-s-wagon · fix someone's wagon · English
fix someone's wagon · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 19 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fix someone's wagon |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “fix someone's wagon” in English
Rare enough to double-check
fix someone's wagon is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To cause injury, distress, or inconvenience to someone, especially as punishment or as a comeuppance.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for fix someone's wagon, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From an archaic sense of fix, "to fix in place, render unable to move", which survives in the word affix. The correct English form is fix someone's wagon, spelled F-I-X- -S-O-M-E-O-N-E-'-S- -W-A-G-O-N.
Definition
- 1To cause injury, distress, or inconvenience to someone, especially as punishment or as a comeuppance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fix someone's wagon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
When Randy Gumpert went in to hurl the sixth the Yankees immediately fixed his wagon. Successive errors by Steve Souchock and Stirnweiss, the latter making his first misplay of the year at third base, put two runners on and both counted.
According to Mr Breeden, Lord Black said that the libel laws in the UK and Canada would permit him to sue and indicated he would go after the houses of board members. […] "He was going to fix their wagon good," said Mr Breeden.
Etymology
From an archaic sense of fix, "to fix in place, render unable to move", which survives in the word affix.
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.