fixer
French, verb/fik.se/
fixer is spelled F-I-X-E-R (5 letters) and appears 14 times per million words in written French, the 5,230th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fixer is a French verb meaning “to fix, fasten” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Attacher, affermir, rendre immobile, maintenir en place”.
What does fixer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to fix, fasten
- 2
to fix, arrange, set (a date, price etc.)
- 3
to settle (in a place)
- 4
to stare at
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Attacher, affermir, rendre immobile, maintenir en place. 2. Supprimer la volatilité de certains corps liquides ou gazeux, par addition ou combinaison avec un autre corps. 3. Rendre inaltérable par un produit ou par un procédé. 4. Arrêter.
noun: 1. Accompagnateur parlant la langue du pays et facilitant les déplacements des journalistes. 2. Drogué.
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 fixer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- fixant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- fixé participle past
- fixe first-person indicative present
- fixes indicative present second-person
- fixons first-person indicative plural
- fixez indicative plural present
- fixent indicative plural present
- fixais first-person imperfect indicative
- fixait imperfect indicative singular
- fixions first-person imperfect indicative
- fixiez imperfect indicative plural
- fixaient imperfect indicative plural
- fixai first-person historic indicative
- fixas historic indicative past
- fixa historic indicative past
- fixâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fixer?
- /fik.se/
- \fi.kse\
- \fik.se\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to fixer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fixer in French?
fixer appears 14 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).