fixateur
French, noun/fik.sa.tœʁ/
fixateur is spelled F-I-X-A-T-E-U-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written French, the 82,784th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fixateur is a French masculine noun meaning “fixer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Matière associée à un parfum pour rendre celui-ci aussi peu volatil que possible”.
What does fixateur mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinefixer
- 2
masculinefixative
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui fixe.
noun: 1. Matière associée à un parfum pour rendre celui-ci aussi peu volatil que possible. 2. Solution chimique utilisée en photographie argentique pour faire perdre sa photosensibilité à un film ou à un papier photographique.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of fixateur
- fixateurs plural
- fixatrice feminine
- fixatrices plural feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fixateur?
- /fik.sa.tœʁ/
- \fik.sa.tœʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to fixateur
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fixateur in French?
fixateur appears about once in every 6 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).