fixture

Other forms of fixture

plural

fixtures·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about fixture

What does fixture mean?

fixture means "an object firmly fixed in place (especially in a household)". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fixture?

fixture has 2 syllables: fix-ture. The stress falls on "fix". In IPA it is /ˈfɪkstʃɚ/.

What is another word for fixture?

Close synonyms include regular, habitue, fastness, fixedness, fixity. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fixture a common word?

fixture is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.