ikon
"ikon" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ikon” is uncommon English (frequency #56,820 among 2,140 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,820
- frequency rank, English
- 2,140
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of icon (religious image).
Corpus desk
Index EN-ikon · ikon · English
ikon · rank #56,820 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,820
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH IHR
Nearest frequency peer: IHR (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “ikon”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- ident
ident
43,184 corpus weight
- idyll
idyll
43,183 corpus weight
- IHR
IHR
43,182 corpus weight
- ikon
ikon
43,181 corpus weight
- illusionist
illusionist
43,180 corpus weight
- impeller
impeller
43,179 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “ikon” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ikon |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #56,820 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “ikon” in English
Rare enough to double-check
ikon is uncommon English at frequency #56,820 among 2,140 “I” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative form of icon (religious image).".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ikon, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is ikon, spelled I-K-O-N.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of icon (religious image).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ikon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The walls themselves were gold and set with ikons and various religious motifs in bright hues.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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