fixateur
\fik.sa.tœʁ\
The verdict
“fixateur” is uncommon French (frequency #82,955 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,955
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui fixe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fixateur · fixateur · French
fixateur · rank #82,955 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,955
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Fismes
Nearest frequency peer: Fismes (-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 « fixateur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fibromes
fibromes
17,049 corpus weight
- financez
financez
17,048 corpus weight
- Fismes
Fismes
17,047 corpus weight
- fixateur
fixateur
17,046 corpus weight
- flesh
flesh
17,045 corpus weight
- flottage
flottage
17,043 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fixateur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fixateur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fik.sa.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #82,955 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fixateur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fixateur is uncommon French at frequency #82,955 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fik.sa.tœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui fixe.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for fixateur, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is fixateur, spelled F-I-X-A-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Qui fixe.
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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