fixité
\fik.si.te\
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
- filaires
filaires
13,295 corpus weight
- filtrants
filtrants
13,294 corpus weight
- fixité
fixité
13,292 corpus weight
- flaccus
flaccus
13,291 corpus weight
- fleurdelisé
fleurdelisé
13,290 corpus weight
- Florennes
Florennes
13,289 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fixité » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fixité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fik.si.te\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #86,709 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fixité » en français
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
- 1État de ce qui est fixe.
- 2Absence d’évolution dans le temps.
- 3Nature d’un regard qui s’attache ou semble s’attacher avec persistance à un objet, à une personne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fixité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces institutions acquirent plus de fixité.
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.
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