vixen
/ˈvɪk.sən/noun
vixen is spelled V-I-X-E-N: 5 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 31,168th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, vixen means “A female fox” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of vixen is vixens.
How many letters and syllables are in vixen?
| Letters | 5: V-I-X-E-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 31,168th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is vixen?
Vixen appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 31,168th 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).
How do you pronounce vixen?
- /ˈvɪk.sən/
Vixen has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-vixen.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of vixen
- vixens plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does vixen mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A female fox.
- 2
A malicious, quarrelsome or temperamental woman.
- 3
colloquialA racy or salacious woman who is sexually attractive; any attractive woman.
- 4
colloquialA wife who has sex with other men with her husband's consent.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Vixen in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | renarde , chipie, garce, salope, rosse |
| German | Füchsin, Fähe , Schlampe, Drachen, Zicke, Xanthippe |
| Portuguese | raposa , megera |
| Spanish | zorra, vulpécula, vulpeja |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does vixen come from?
Alteration of earlier fixen, from Middle English fixen, fixene, from Old English *fyxen (compare also Old English fyxe (“female fox”)), from Proto-West Germanic *fuhsini, from Proto-Germanic *fuhsinī; the voiced v- comes from the Southern dialectal forms of Middle English. Alternatively, from the Old English adjective fyxen (“of the fox”), as in the phrase fixen hȳd (“fox skin”; compare Middle English foxen fox).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).