Jynx vs. Jinx — What's the Difference?

Jynx, known in Japan as Rougela (ルージュラ, Rūjura), is a Pokémon species in Nintendo and Game Freak's Pokémon franchise. Created by Ken Sugimori, Jynx first appeared in the video games Pokémon Red and Blue and subsequent sequels, later appearing in various merchandise, spinoff titles, or animated and printed adaptations of the franchise.

A jinx (also jynx), in popular superstition and folklore, is a curse or the attribute of attracting bad or negative luck. The word "jynx" meaning the bird wryneck and sometimes a charm or spell has been in use in English since the seventeenth century.

A bird, the wryneck, once thought a bird of ill omen (Jynx torquilla).

A person or thing that brings bad luck

(transferred sense) A charm or spell.

Bring bad luck to; cast an evil spell on

The name of an order of spiritual intelligences in ancient “Chaldaic” philosophy.

A person or thing that is believed to bring bad luck.

Wrynecks

A condition or period of bad luck that appears to have been caused by a specific person or thing.

To bring bad luck to.

A hex; an evil spell.

A person or thing supposed to bring bad luck.

(transitive) To cast a spell on.

(transitive) To bring bad luck to.

(transitive) To cause something to happen by mentioning it, usually sarcastically.

A person, object, influence, or supernatural being which is supposed to bring bad luck or to cause things to go wrong.

To bring bad luck to; to cause to malfunction or go wrong; as, some superstitious people are reluctant to predict success for fear it will jinx them.

A person believed to bring bad luck to those around him

An evil spell;

Cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something

Foredoom to failure;