fixe
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,615
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
fixe is anFrenchadj. It means: Immobile. Pronounced \fiks\. It ranks #2,615 in French word frequency. Often confused with fox and fle.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fixe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \fiks\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #2,615 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for fixe is 4 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fiks\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,615 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for fixe, with forms such as "ffixe", "fiex", and "fixxe". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fox", "fle", "free", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is fixe, spelled F-I-X-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Immobile.
- 2Invariant, définitif.
- 3Par opposition à ce qui n’est que casuel.
- 4Il se dit des composés qui ne peuvent être dissociés ou volatilisés qu’à des températures élevées. Il se disait des gaz permanents, c’est-à-dire qui ne pouvaient être liquéfiés.
- 5Constant, car il correspond au milieu d'une saison.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ffixe,fiex,fixxe,fxie,ifxe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for fixe
Misspelling Variants of "fixe"
Frequency rank: #2,615 in French
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