# corn

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈkɔːn/ · frequency rank #5,206

## Definitions
1. Any cereal plant (or its grain) that is the main crop or staple of a country or region.
2. Maize, a grain crop of the species Zea mays.
3. A grain or seed, especially of a cereal crop.
4. A small, hard particle.
5. A type of granular snow formed by repeated melting and refreezing, often in mountain spring conditions.
6. Bullets, ammunition, charge and discharge of firearms.
7. Money.

## Etymology
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”).
Cognate with Dutch koren, German Low German Koorn, German Korn, Danish korn, Norwegian Bokmål korn, Norwegian Nynorsk korn and Swedish korn; see also Albanian grurë, Russian зерно́ (zernó), Czech zrno, Latin grānum and Lithuanian žirnis. Doublet of grain, gram, granum, and grao.
The sense maize (Zea mays) is an ellipsis of Indian corn that developed in 18th century North America.

## Easily confused with
- **CR** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/corn-vs-cr)
- **cry** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/corn-vs-cry)
- **cow** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/corn-vs-cow)
- **cos** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/corn-vs-cos)
- **cox** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/corn-vs-cox)
- **CPR** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/corn-vs-cpr)
- **cot** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/corn-vs-cot)
- **CSR** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/corn-vs-csr)
- **coz** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/corn-vs-coz)
- **coy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/corn-vs-coy)
- **CRT** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/corn-vs-crt)
- **CRM** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/corn-vs-crm)
- **CTR** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/corn-vs-ctr)
- **cur** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/corn-vs-cur)
- **CRS** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/corn-vs-crs)
- **CRO** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/corn-vs-cro)
- **Cov** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/corn-vs-cov)
- **CRI** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/corn-vs-cri)
- **cru** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/corn-vs-cru)
- **cost** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/corn-vs-cost)

## Common misspellings (6)
`ccorn`, `conr`, `cornn`, `corrn`, `cron`, `ocrn`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/corn