hamburger icon

noun

The verdict

“hamburger icon” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
14
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Icône hamburger : icône composé de plusieurs traits superposés, généralement trois, et servant à déplier un menu déroulant.

Key facts for hamburger icon
PropertyValue
Headwordhamburger icon
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “hamburger icon” sits in French frequency

hamburger icon falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for hamburger icon is 14 letters long, classified as a noun. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Icône hamburger : icône composé de plusieurs traits superposés, généralement trois, et servant à déplier un menu déroulant.".

No misspelling variants are generated for hamburger icon in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is hamburger icon, spelled H-A-M-B-U-R-G-E-R- -I-C-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Icône hamburger : icône composé de plusieurs traits superposés, généralement trois, et servant à déplier un menu déroulant.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "hamburger icon"?
"hamburger icon" is spelled H-A-M-B-U-R-G-E-R- -I-C-O-N.
What does "hamburger icon" mean?
As a noun, "hamburger icon" means: Icône hamburger : icône composé de plusieurs traits superposés, généralement trois, et servant à déplier un menu déroulant.
What language does "hamburger icon" come from?
"hamburger icon" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Using “hamburger icon”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is H-A-M-B-U-R-G-E-R- -I-C-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list FrequencyWords open word-frequency list