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corn

/ˈkɔɹn/noun, verb

corn is spelled C-O-R-N: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 15 times per million words in written English, the 5,206th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, corn means “Any cereal plant (or its grain) that is the main crop or staple of a country or region” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of corn is corns.

How many letters and syllables are in corn?

Letters4: C-O-R-N
Syllables1
In writing15 times per million words; the 5,206th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is corn?

Corn appears 15 times per million words in written English, the 5,206th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce corn?

  • UK /ˈkɔːn/
  • US /ˈkɔɹn/
  • Australia /ˈkoːn/

Corn has one syllable.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-corn.ogg, EN-AU_ck1_corn.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with corn?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as corn from its last stressed vowel (/ɔɹn/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of corn

  • corns plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • corning participle, present
  • corned participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does corn mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    CommonwealthAny cereal plant (or its grain) that is the main crop or staple of a country or region.

  2. 2

    AustraliaCanadaUSMaize, a grain crop of the species Zea mays.

  3. 3

    A single seed of a food crop, especially a cereal grass crop.

    He paid her the nominal fee of two corns of barley.

  4. 4

    A small, hard particle.

  5. 5

    A type of granular snow formed by repeated melting and refreezing, often in mountain spring conditions.

  6. 6

    slangBullets, ammunition, and charge and discharge of firearms.

  7. 7

    slangMoney.

  8. 8

    A type of callus, usually on the feet or hands.

  9. 9

    An inflammatory disease of a horse's hoof, at the caudal part of the sole.

  10. 10

    Skin hyperplasia with underlying fibroma between both digits of cattle.

  11. 11

    CanadaUSSomething (e.g., acting, humour, music, or writing) which is deemed old-fashioned or intended to induce emotion.

  12. 12

    pornography; porn

verb

  1. 1

    CanadaUSTo granulate; to form (a substance) into grains.

    to corn gunpowder

  2. 2

    CanadaUSTo preserve using coarse salt, e.g. corned beef.

  3. 3

    CanadaUSTo provide (an animal) with corn (typically maize; or, in Scotland, oats) for feed.

    Corn the horses.

  4. 4

    obsoleteTo render intoxicated.

    ale strong enough to corn one

  5. 5

    slangTo shoot up with bullets as by a shotgun (corn).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Corn in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
GermanGetreide, Korn (main cereal crop or staple in a given region), Zerealie (grain or seed of a cereal crop), Hühnerauge (type of callus)
Frenchmaïs (grain or seed of a cereal crop), cor (type of callus)
Portuguesecereal, grãos (grain or seed of a cereal crop), calo (type of callus), salgar (preserve with salt)
Spanishcereal, grano (grain or seed of a cereal crop), callo (type of callus)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does corn come from?

Inherited from Middle English corn, from Old English corn, from Proto-West Germanic *korn, from Proto-Germanic *kurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm (“grain; worn-down”), from *ǵerh₂- (“grow old, mature”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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