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fixup

noun

fixup is a noun meaning “Alternative form of fix-up” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-I-X-U-P, and it appears about once in every 71 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fixup is fixups.

What does fixup mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Alternative form of fix-up.

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

Forms of fixup

  • fixups plural

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

How common is fixup?

Fixup appears about once in every 71 million words in written English, the 265,644th 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).

Where does fixup come from?

Deverbal from fix up.

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