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cornet

/kɔɹˈnɛt/noun

cornet is spelled C-O-R-N-E-T: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 36,565th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, cornet means “A musical instrument of the brass family, slightly smaller than a trumpet, usually in the musical key of B-flat” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of cornet is cornets.

How many letters and syllables are in cornet?

Letters6: C-O-R-N-E-T
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 2 million words; the 36,565th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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 cornet?

Cornet appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 36,565th 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 cornet?

  • US /kɔɹˈnɛt/
  • UK /ˈkɔːnɪt/

Cornet 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). Recordings: En-us-cornet.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-I_learned_some_phrases-cornet.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with cornet?

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

Spelled with the same letters in another order: retcon.

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 cornet

  • cornets plural

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

What does cornet mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A musical instrument of the brass family, slightly smaller than a trumpet, usually in the musical key of B-flat.

  2. 2

    A piece of paper twisted to be used as a container.

  3. 3

    An ice cream cone (the shell itself).

  4. 4

    UKdatedAn ice cream cone (the unit comprising the shell and the ice cream).

  5. 5

    obsoleteA troop of cavalry; so called from its being accompanied by a cornet player.

  6. 6

    A kind of organ stop.

  7. 7

    A hollow horn-like growth.

  8. 8

    The white headdress worn by the Sisters of Charity.

  9. 9

    obsoleteThe standard flown by a cavalry troop.

  10. 10

    The fifth commissioned officer in a cavalry troop, who carried the colours (equivalent to the ensign in infantry).

    This cornet [translating Cornet] was a brave young cavalier and not more than two years older than me.

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

How do you abbreviate cornet?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of cornet: Crnt..

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

Cornet in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchcornet (musical instrument), cornette (military officer)
GermanKornett (musical instrument), Spitztüte, Papiertüte (piece of paper twisted to make a container), Eistüte, Eishörnchen (pastry shell to be filled with ice cream)
Portuguesecorneta (musical instrument)
Spanishcorneta (musical instrument), cartucho, cucurucho (piece of paper twisted to make a container), cono (pastry shell to be filled with ice cream)

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 cornet come from?

From Middle English cornet, from Old French cornet, a diminutive of a popular reflex of Latin cornū (“horn”).

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

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