fauxhawk
noun
fauxhawk is a noun meaning “An imitation of the Mohawk hairstyle in which a central tuft is created using gel without having to shave the sides of the head” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-U-X-H-A-W-K, and it appears about once in every 85 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fauxhawk is fauxhawks.
What does fauxhawk mean?
noun
- 1
An imitation of the Mohawk hairstyle in which a central tuft is created using gel without having to shave the sides of the head.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fauxhawk
- fauxhawks plural
- fohawk
- faux-hawk
- faux hawk
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fauxhawk?
Fauxhawk appears about once in every 85 million words in written English, the 293,966th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does fauxhawk come from?
Blend of faux + Mohawk.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).