# vixen

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈvɪk.sən/ · frequency rank #31,402

## Definitions
1. A female fox.
2. A malicious, quarrelsome or temperamental woman.
3. A racy or salacious woman who is sexually attractive; any attractive woman.
4. A wife who has sex with other men with her husband's consent.

## Etymology
Alteration of earlier fixen, from Middle English fixen, 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).

## Easily confused with
- **vie** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/vie-vs-vixen)
- **VIX** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/vix-vs-vixen)
- **view** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/view-vs-vixen)
- **vice** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/vice-vs-vixen)
- **vibe** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/vibe-vs-vixen)
- **vine** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/vine-vs-vixen)
- **vile** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/vile-vs-vixen)
- **Viet** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/viet-vs-vixen)
- **vide** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/vide-vs-vixen)
- **vive** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/vive-vs-vixen)
- **vise** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/vise-vs-vixen)
- **video** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/video-vs-vixen)
- **vines** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/vines-vs-vixen)
- **vibes** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/vibes-vs-vixen)
- **viper** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/viper-vs-vixen)
- **Vimeo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/vimeo-vs-vixen)
- **vexed** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/vexed-vs-vixen)
- **Vivek** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/vivek-vs-vixen)
- **Vivien** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/vivien-vs-vixen)

## Common misspellings (7)
`ivxen`, `viexn`, `vixenn`, `vixne`, `vixxen`, `vvixen`, `vxien`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/vixen