Whole Word

The whole-word icon represents exact word matching and complete word search options in text editing and search applications. Featuring two circles connected by vertical lines suggesting complete word boundaries, the symbol indicates search modes that match entire words rather than partial text strings, ensuring precise search results without substring matches.

In modern applications like Microsoft Word, Google Docs, and code editors like VS Code, this icon appears when enabling whole-word search options that prevent partial matches. Find-and-replace tools and text search interfaces use this symbol to toggle between substring matching and complete word matching, helping users avoid unintended replacements when similar letter combinations appear within larger words.

The visual design communicates more than just text searching—it specifically represents word boundary detection where search terms must be standalone complete words. This distinction helps users perform precise text operations without accidentally matching word fragments, enabling accurate find-and-replace operations in documents and code where partial matches would cause errors.

Whole Word is one of 1,655 icons in Lucide, made by Lucide Contributors and released under ISC. It is drawn on a 24 × 24 grid with a 2 stroke.

Sign in (it's free), then open Get icon, Install with shadcn CLI, and pick your package manager to copy the command. It adds WholeWordIcon to components/icons/lucide-whole-word.tsx: one file, a size prop (24 by default) and every SVG prop, with no icon package.

Copy it as React (from Get icon, or the Code section): a typed WholeWordIcon component you paste into your project, with no package to install. Only the icons you import reach your bundle. It works in Next.js and any React app.

Yes, if your project has lucide-react: Whole Word is `WholeWordIcon` there, used as <WholeWordIcon />. The shadcn.io MCP server answers with that import when it finds the package. Without it, copy the icon from here.

Open Get icon, then Copy as code, and pick Vue, Svelte, Angular, Solid or Preact; the Code section shows each one too. Every version is one self-contained component with the SVG inside, and SVG and data URL copies are there for plain HTML and CSS.

With Pro, the shadcn.io MCP server lets Claude Code, Cursor or any MCP client find the Whole Word icon, or any of 1,655 Lucide icons, and install it from a prompt.

It's drawn in currentColor, so it takes the text color wherever you use it: a class like text-primary recolors it. To bake a color in, set one in Customize before you copy.

Set width and height on the component, or a class like size-6. It's drawn on a 24 × 24 grid, so it stays sharp at any size. Customize also sets the size it exports at, its padding and rotation, and its stroke.

Whole Word is a line icon drawn with a stroke width of 2. Change it in Customize before you copy, or pass strokeWidth to the installed component when all of its strokes share one width.

Yes. It follows the text color, so with text-foreground (or any theme token) it changes with your light and dark themes. The icon is a vector, so it needs no separate dark asset.

Next to a visible label it's decoration: add aria-hidden="true" so screen readers skip it. Standing alone, as in an icon button, give the button a name instead, like aria-label="Whole Word", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. WholeWordIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <WholeWordIcon aria-hidden="true" /> works, and so do role="img" with aria-label, or a title child, when it carries meaning on its own.

Yes. Open Get icon, then Download file: SVG for code or design tools like Figma; PNG, WebP or JPEG at 512px; or an ICO favicon with 16, 32 and 48px inside. Each one uses what you set in Customize.

Yes. ISC allows commercial use; keep the license notice when you ship the icons' source files. The full terms are in the license, linked on this page.

No visible credit is required: ISC only asks that you keep the license notice if you ship the icons' source files. Icons installed with the shadcn CLI already start with a comment naming Lucide, Lucide Contributors and the license.

Yes. Copying and downloading it is free, and the shadcn CLI install only needs a free account.

1 other library draws an icon called Whole Word. The Other libraries section on this page shows each one, so you can compare them and open the one that fits your style.

Its tags are text, search, find, complete, boundary and word. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Whole Word in another set.