fixaient
\fik.sɛ\
The verdict
“fixaient” is uncommon French (frequency #78,431 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,431
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de fixer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fixaient · fixaient · French
fixaient · rank #78,431 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,431
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH filosofia
Nearest frequency peer: filosofia (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « fixaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- filin
filin
21,572 corpus weight
- filosofia
filosofia
21,571 corpus weight
- fixaient
fixaient
21,570 corpus weight
- fofolle
fofolle
21,569 corpus weight
- forcenés
forcenés
21,568 corpus weight
- Forester
Forester
21,566 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fixaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fixaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fik.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #78,431 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fixaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fixaient is uncommon French at frequency #78,431 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fik.sɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de fixer.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for fixaient, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 fixaient, spelled F-I-X-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de fixer.
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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