fixité

\fik.si.te\

/\fik.si.te\/ noun

The verdict

“fixité” is uncommon French (frequency #86,709 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#86,709
frequency rank, French
3,276
“F” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État de ce qui est fixe.

Corpus desk

Index FR-fixite · fixité · French

fixité · rank #86,709 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #86,709
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,276
  • PHOTO-FINISH flaccus

Nearest frequency peer: flaccus (+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 « fixité »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fixité » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for fixité
PropertyValue
Headwordfixité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fik.si.te\
Letters6
Frequency rank#86,709
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « fixité » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).fixitétombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « flaccus » (#86,710), « filtrants » (#86,707), « fleurdelisé » (#86,711). Parmi 3,276 lemmes en « F », « fixité » est au #86,709. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

fixité is uncommon French at frequency #86,709 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fik.si.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.

fixité has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is fixité, spelled F-I-X-I-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    État de ce qui est fixe.
  2. 2
    Absence d’évolution dans le temps.
  3. 3
    Nature d’un regard qui s’attache ou semble s’attacher avec persistance à un objet, à une personne.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how fixité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Ces institutions acquirent plus de fixité.
  2. C’est un esprit sans fixité.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "fixité"?
"fixité" is spelled F-I-X-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \fik.si.te\.
What does "fixité" mean?
As a noun, "fixité" means: État de ce qui est fixe.
How do you pronounce "fixité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "fixité" is \fik.si.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "fixité" come from?
"fixité" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "fixité", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list