pixie
pix·ie/ˈpɪksi/noun
pixie is spelled P-I-X-I-E: 5 letters and 2 syllables (pix·ie). It appears 1.4 times per million words in written English, the 23,835th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data, counting Pixie, the name). As a noun, pixie means “A playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of pixie is pixies.
How many letters and syllables are in pixie?
| Letters | 5: P-I-X-I-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: pix·ie |
| In writing | 1.4 times per million words; the 23,835th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
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).
How common is pixie?
Pixie appears 1.4 times per million words in written English, the 23,835th most frequent word form in the list. The list counts every capitalisation together, so this includes Pixie, the name.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce pixie?
- US /ˈpɪksi/
Pixie has 2 syllables, split pix·ie in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-pixie.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of pixie
- pixies plural
- pigsie
- piskie
- pisky
- pixy
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does pixie mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature.
- 2
slangA cute, petite woman with short hair.
- 3
An upper-atmospheric optical phenomenon associated with thunderstorms, a short-lasting pinpoint of light on the surface of convective domes that produces a gnome.
- 4
A butterfly of the genus Melanis.
- 5
Ellipsis of pixie cut.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Pixie in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature:
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 pixie come from?
Uncertain; 17thC, originally in the folklore of southwest England; perhaps diminutive of dialectal Swedish pysk (“fairy”), though the transmission of a Swedish dialect term to southwest Britain is unexplained; perhaps Puck (“Robin Goodfellow”) + -sy; see Wikipedia.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).