fixement
\fik.sə.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“fixement” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,440. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,440
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D’une manière fixe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fixement · fixement · French
fixement · rank #43,440 · 12 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,440
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH filtrant
Nearest frequency peer: filtrant (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « fixement »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Filip
Filip
56,564 corpus weight
- filou
filou
56,563 corpus weight
- filtrant
filtrant
56,562 corpus weight
- fixement
fixement
56,561 corpus weight
- flanelle
flanelle
56,560 corpus weight
- florentine
florentine
56,559 corpus weight
What this shows « fixement » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | fixement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \fik.sə.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #43,440 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fixement »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around fixement (IPA \fik.sə.mɑ̃\), anadverb. Corpus frequency is #43,440 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "D’une manière fixe.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for fixement, with forms such as "ffixement", "fiexment", and "fixeemnt". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "fixent", "filment", "finement", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is fixement, spelled F-I-X-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1D’une manière fixe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fixement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A droite du piano, le violoncelliste émergeait de la fosse, la tête appuyée contre la crosse de son instrument dont il pinçait les cordes en regardant fixement devant lui.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffixement
- fiexment
- fixeemnt
- fixemennt
- fixementt
- fixemetn
- fixemment
- fixemnet
- fixmeent
- fixxement
- fxiement
- ifxement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fixement - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "fixement", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).