Phoenix vs. Phenix: What's the Difference?

(Mythology)A bird in Egyptian mythology that lived in the desert for 500 years and then consumed itself by fire, later to rise renewed from its ashes.

A person or thing of unsurpassed excellence or beauty; a paragon.

Phoenix A constellation in the Southern Hemisphere near Tucana and Sculptor.

(mythology) A mythological bird, said to be the only one of its kind, which lives for 500 years and then dies by burning to ashes on a pyre of its own making, ignited by the sun. It then arises anew from the ashes.

(figuratively) Anything that is reborn after apparently being destroyed.

(Chinese mythology) A mythological Chinese chimerical bird whose physical body symbolizes the six celestial bodies; a fenghuang.

(historical) A Greek silver coin used briefly from 1828 to 1832, divided into 100 lepta.

(obsolete) A marvelous person or thing.

(Australia) To transfer assets from one company to another to dodge liability

Same as Phenix.

A genus of palms including the date tree.

The state capital and largest city of Arizona; situated in a former desert that has become a prosperous agricultural center thanks to irrigation

A large monocotyledonous genus of pinnate-leaved palms found in Asia and Africa

A legendary Arabian bird said to periodically burn itself to death and emerge from the ashes as a new phoenix; according to most versions only one phoenix lived at a time and it renewed itself every 500 years

A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Tucana and Sculptor