icepick
noun, verb
icepick is a noun meaning “A pointed tool, shaped like an awl, used for breaking ice” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled I-C-E-P-I-C-K, and it appears about once in every 25 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of icepick is icepicks.
What does icepick mean?
noun
- 1
A pointed tool, shaped like an awl, used for breaking ice.
- 2
A type of narrow and deep atrophic (indented) acne scar that resembles a puncture in the skin.
verb
- 1
To break or stab with an icepick.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce icepick?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-icepick.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of icepick
- icepicks plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- ice pick
- ice-pick
- icepicking participle, present
- icepicked participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is icepick?
Icepick appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 152,206th 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).
Icepick in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a pointed tool used for breaking ice:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | pic à glace |
| German | Eispick |
| Portuguese | picador de gelo, quebrador de gelo |
| Spanish | punzón de hielo, picahielos |
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.