# cornet

> English word · Noun · IPA /kɔɹˈnɛt/ · frequency rank #36,504

## Definitions
1. A musical instrument of the brass family, slightly smaller than a trumpet, usually in the musical key of B-flat.
2. A piece of paper twisted to be used as a container.
3. A pastry shell to be filled with ice-cream, hence (UK, dated) an ice cream cone.
4. A troop of cavalry; so called from its being accompanied by a cornet player.
5. A kind of organ stop.
6. A hollow horn-like growth.

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

## Easily confused with
- **count** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cornet-vs-count)
- **corny** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cornet-vs-corny)
- **covet** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cornet-vs-covet)
- **coyne** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cornet-vs-coyne)
- **cortex** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cornet-vs-cortex)
- **Cortez** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cornet-vs-cortez)
- **corset** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cornet-vs-corset)
- **Correa** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cornet-vs-correa)
- **Cortes** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cornet-vs-cortes)
- **correct** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cornet-vs-correct)
- **coroner** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cornet-vs-coroner)
- **core** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/core-vs-cornet)
- **corn** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/corn-vs-cornet)
- **cone** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cone-vs-cornet)
- **cont** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cont-vs-cornet)
- **Corey** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/corey-vs-cornet)
- **comet** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/comet-vs-cornet)
- **cores** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cores-vs-cornet)
- **Cones** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cones-vs-cornet)
- **Coney** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/coney-vs-cornet)

## Common misspellings (9)
`ccornet`, `conret`, `corent`, `cornett`, `cornnet`, `cornte`, `corrnet`, `cronet`, `ocrnet`

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