Chorale or corral?
chorale is a noun meaning “A chorus or choir”; corral is a noun meaning “An enclosure for livestock, especially a circular one”. In written English (wordfreq, 2021 data) corral is about 3.5 times as common as chorale.
What is the difference between chorale and corral?
| chorale | corral | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun | noun, verb |
| Meaning | A form of Lutheran or Protestant hymn tune A chorus or choir | An enclosure for livestock, especially a circular one An enclosure or area to concentrate a dispersed group To capture or round up |
| Example | none recorded | We had a small corral out back where we kept our pet llama |
| Forms | chorales | corrals |
| Pronunciation | /kɒˈrɑːl/ /kɔːˈɹɑːl/ /kəˈræl/ | /kəˈɹæl/ /kəˈɹɑːl/ |
| In writing | about once in every 3 million words | 1.1 times per million words |
Sources: chorale and corral in the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Every current meaning of chorale and corral
chorale
- 1
A form of Lutheran or Protestant hymn tune
- 2
A chorus or choir
corral
- 1
An enclosure for livestock, especially a circular one
We had a small corral out back where we kept our pet llama
- 2
To capture or round up
Between us, we managed to corral the puppies in the kitchen
- 3
An enclosure or area to concentrate a dispersed group
Please return the shopping carts to the corral
- 4
To place inside of a corral
After we corralled the last steer, we headed off to the chuck wagon for dinner
- 5
A circle of wagons, either for the purpose of trapping livestock, or for defense
The wagon train formed a corral to protect against Comanche attacks
- 6
To make a circle of vehicles, as of wagons so as to form a corral
The cattle drivers corralled their wagons for the night
Source: the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); obsolete, archaic, dialect and rare senses left out.
Which is more common, chorale or corral?
chorale appears about once in every 3 million words; corral 1.1 times per million words.
chorale about once in every 3 million wordscorral 1.1 times per million words
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).