point fixe
\pwɛ̃ fiks\
The verdict
“point fixe” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Élément x quand f(x) = x, pour une application f d’un ensemble E dans lui-même.
Corpus desk
Index FR-point-fixe · point fixe · French
point fixe · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | point fixe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pwɛ̃ fiks\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “point fixe” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
point fixe is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pwɛ̃ fiks\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for point fixe in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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. The correct French form is point fixe, spelled P-O-I-N-T- -F-I-X-E.
Definition
- 1Élément x quand f(x) = x, pour une application f d’un ensemble E dans lui-même.
- 2Étalon servant de référence pour la mesure de la température, souvent disponible sous forme de cellule permettant un étalonnage pratique de thermomètres.
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