icons
\ˈaɪ.kɒnz\
The verdict
“icons” is uncommon French (frequency #84,886 among 142,603 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,886
- frequency rank, French
- 142,603
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Pluriel de icon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-icons · icons · French
icons · rank #84,886 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,886
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 142,603
- PHOTO-FINISH idylliques
Nearest frequency peer: idylliques (+1 rank slots)
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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “icons”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- hune
hune
15,119 corpus weight
- icons
icons
15,115 corpus weight
- idylliques
idylliques
15,114 corpus weight
- ilm
ilm
15,113 corpus weight
- imagier
imagier
15,112 corpus weight
- IMEI
IMEI
15,111 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “icons” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | icons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈaɪ.kɒnz\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #84,886 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “icons” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
icons is uncommon French at frequency #84,886 among 142,603 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈaɪ.kɒnz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de icon.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for icons, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is icons, spelled I-C-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de icon.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "icons", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.