# fix

> English word · Verb · IPA /ˈfɪks/ · frequency rank #1,826

## Definitions
1. To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.
2. To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.
3. To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
4. To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
5. To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
6. To mend, to repair.
7. To mend, to repair.
8. To prepare (food or drink).
9. To make (a contest, vote, or gamble) unfair; to privilege one contestant or a particular group of contestants, usually before the contest begins; to arrange immunity for defendants by tampering with the justice system via bribery or extortion.
10. To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
11. To map (a point or subset) to itself.
12. To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
13. To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light.
14. To convert into a stable or available form.
15. To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
16. To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a metallic substance.
17. To shoot; to inject a drug.

## Etymology
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.

## Easily confused with
- **FL** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fix-vs-fl)
- **FM** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fix-vs-fm)
- **fu** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fix-vs-fu)
- **fo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fix-vs-fo)
- **FS** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fix-vs-fs)
- **FN** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fix-vs-fn)
- **FP** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fix-vs-fp)
- **FW** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fix-vs-fw)
- **fy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fix-vs-fy)
- **for** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fix-vs-for)
- **fun** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fix-vs-fun)
- **fly** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fix-vs-fly)
- **fox** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fix-vs-fox)
- **fur** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fix-vs-fur)
- **flu** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fix-vs-flu)
- **fog** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fix-vs-fog)
- **fry** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fix-vs-fry)
- **FLA** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fix-vs-fla)
- **FYI** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fix-vs-fyi)
- **foe** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fix-vs-foe)

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/fix