corner
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "corner", 6-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "corner" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "corner" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
corner is aEnglishnoun. It means: The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal. Pronounced /ˈkɔːnə(ɹ)/. It ranks #1,817 in English word frequency. Often confused with corr and cover.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | corner |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkɔːnə(ɹ)/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,817 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for corner is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈkɔːnə(ɹ)/. Corpus data places it at rank #1,817 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 19 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for corner, with forms such as "ccorner", "conrer", and "corenr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "corr", "cover", "corny", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English corner, from Anglo-Norman cornere (compare Old French cornier, corniere (“corner”)), from Old French corne (“corner, angle”, literally “a horn, projecting point”), from Vulgar Latin *corna (“horn”), from Latin cornua, plural of cornū (“p… Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is corner, spelled C-O-R-N-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.
- 2The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.
- 3The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.
- 4The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.
- 5The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.
- 6The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.
- 7An edge or extremity; the part farthest from the center; hence, any quarter or part, or the direction in which it lies.
- 8A secret or secluded place; a remote or out of the way place; a nook.
- 9An embarrassing situation; a difficulty.
- 10A sufficient interest in a salable security or commodity to allow the cornering party to influence prices.
- 11A sufficient interest in a salable security or commodity to allow the cornering party to influence prices.
- 12Relating to the playing field.
- 13Relating to the playing field.
- 14Relating to the playing field.
- 15Relating to the playing field.
- 16Relating to the playing field.
- 17Relating to the playing field.
- 18A place where people meet for a particular purpose.
- 19A point scored in a rubber at whist.
Etymology
From Middle English corner, from Anglo-Norman cornere (compare Old French cornier, corniere (“corner”)), from Old French corne (“corner, angle”, literally “a horn, projecting point”), from Vulgar Latin *corna (“horn”), from Latin cornua, plural of cornū (“projecting point, end, horn”). The sense of "angle, corner" in Old French is not found in Latin or other Romance languages. It was possibly calqued from Frankish *hurnijā (“corner, angle”), which is similar to, and derived from *hurn, the Frankish word for "horn". Displaced native cognate Middle English hirn, herne, from Old English hyrne, from Proto-Germanic *hurnijǭ (“little horn, hook, angle, corner”), whence modern English hirn (“nook, corner”), itself related to horn.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccorner,conrer,corenr,cornerr,cornner,cornre,corrner,croner,ocrner
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for corner
Misspelling Variants of "corner"
Frequency rank: #1,817 in English
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