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cornbread

noun

cornbread is a noun meaning “Bread made from cornmeal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-O-R-N-B-R-E-A-D and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 2 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of cornbread is cornbreads.

What does cornbread mean?

noun

  1. 1

    USBread made from cornmeal.

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

How do you pronounce cornbread?

    Cornbread has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

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

    Forms of cornbread

    • cornbreads plural
    • corn bread

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

    How common is cornbread?

    Cornbread appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 40,703rd 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).

    Words people confuse with cornbread

    Also written: corn bread (one word or two).

    Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

    Cornbread in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

    In the sense bread made from cornmeal:

    LanguageWords
    Spanishpan de maíz/elote, borona, nishpinol

    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.