icon

Other forms of icon

plural

icons·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about icon

What does icon mean?

icon means "(computer science) a graphic symbol (usually a simple picture) that denotes a program or a command or a data file or a concept in a graphical user interface". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in icon?

icon has 2 syllables: i-con. The stress falls on "i". In IPA it is /ˈaɪkɑn/.

What is another word for icon?

Close synonyms include picture, image, ikon, ikon. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is icon a common word?

icon is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with icon?

1 word rhymes with icon. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.