fix
\fiks\
The verdict
“fix” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #23,870) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #23,870
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dose de drogue, généralement injectée par intraveineuse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fix · fix · French
fix · rank #23,870 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,870
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fractions
Nearest frequency peer: fractions (+1 rank slots)
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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « fix »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- feng
feng
76,133 corpus weight
- fix
fix
76,131 corpus weight
- fractions
fractions
76,130 corpus weight
- Frankenstein
Frankenstein
76,129 corpus weight
- furie
furie
76,128 corpus weight
- gais
gais
76,127 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « fix » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fix |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fiks\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #23,870 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « fix »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for fix is neighbouring look-alikes ("FN", "fo", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \fiks\. Frequency #23,870 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Gloss: "Dose de drogue, généralement injectée par intraveineuse.".
fix doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "FN", "fo", "fm", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is fix, spelled F-I-X.
Definition
- 1Dose de drogue, généralement injectée par intraveineuse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fix appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mon père est mort, j’ai hérité, j’ai eu vingt et un ans, je suis allé au casino et j’ai perdu quelques millions, j’aurais préféré le piano, mais au lieu de ça, j’ai appris à rouler des pétards parfaits, et à me faire mes propres fix, avec Julie.
Il est assuré que personne ne remarque rien, de même que les drogués peuvent aller dix fois par jour se faire leur fix aux toilettes sans prendre en compte que ça nuit à leur secret tant qu'on ne le leur a pas fait explicitement remarquer, […].
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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