point fixe
\pwɛ̃ fiks\
The verdict
“point fixe” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- 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.
| 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
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for point fixe is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pwɛ̃ fiks\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for point fixe in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is point fixe, spelled P-O-I-N-T- -F-I-X-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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.
This word in other languages
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Using “point fixe”
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- The one correct French spelling is P-O-I-N-T- -F-I-X-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pwɛ̃ fiks\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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