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.

Variant of phoenix.

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

Archaic spelling of phoenix

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

A bird fabled to exist single, to be consumed by fire by its own act, and to rise again from its ashes. Hence, an emblem of immortality.

(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.

A southern constellation.

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

A marvelous person or thing.

(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