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Depends entirely on what you think of as a "normal" bicycle wheel.

An externally geared wheel is unlikely to work very well, as it has a longer axle and will require a wider dropout spacing than a fixie wheel.

On top of that you might get into chainline and gear ratio issues, not to mention that the fixie chain might not sit comfortably on multi-gear sprockets.

If you get the urge to turn the fixie into a geared bike, there are a bunch of brackets and attachments that your frame will be missing which will have to be sorted out.

A wheel with internal gears is more like to fit both dropout width and chain width, but again using those gears will require some work.

Replacing a fixie wheel with a single-speed wheel is usually easily doable, they tend to be a direct fit.

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