fix: meaning and words from its letters
3 letters · 13 letter points · starts with F · ends with X
Meaning of fix
verb
- transitive
To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
Example: A dab of chewing gum will fix your note to the bulletin board.
- figuratively, passive, transitive, usually
To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time. To focus or determine (oneself, on a concept); to fixate.
Example: She's fixed on the idea of becoming a doctor.
- transitive
To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time. To prevent enemy pawns from advancing by directly opposing the most advanced one with one of one's own pawns so as to threaten to capture any advancing backward pawns.
- transitive
To mend, to repair.
Example: That heater will start a fire if you don't fix it.
Listed forms: fixes, fixing, fixt, fixed, glossary.
Source: Wiktionary — fix.
noun
A repair or corrective action.
Example: That plumber's fix is much better than the first one's.
A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma; a predicament.
Example: It rained before we repaired the roof, and were we in a fix!
- slang
A single dose of a narcotic drug, especially when injected.
- broadly, figuratively, slang
A single dose of a narcotic drug, especially when injected. Something that satisfies a yearning or a craving.
Listed forms: fixes, fixe.
Source: Wiktionary — fix.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for fix.
noun
informal terms for a difficult situation
noun
the act of putting something in working order again
noun
a determination of the place where something is
verb
restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is fix in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of fix
F(4) + I(1) + X(8) = 13 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of fix
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from fix
2 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in fix. Showing up to 24, longest first.