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fixie

noun

fixie is a noun meaning “A fixed-gear bicycle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-I-X-I-E, and it appears about once in every 13 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fixie is fixies.

What does fixie mean?

noun

  1. 1

    informalA fixed-gear bicycle.

  2. 2

    informalA fixed-blade knife.

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

Forms of fixie

  • fixies plural

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

How common is fixie?

Fixie appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 107,757th 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).

Fixie in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense bicycle without a freewheel:

LanguageWords
GermanFixie

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 fixie come from?

From fix + -ie.

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