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corneum

/ˈkɔː(ɹ)ni.əm/noun

corneum is spelled C-O-R-N-E-U-M: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 115,751st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, corneum means “The outermost layer of the skin” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in corneum?

Letters7: C-O-R-N-E-U-M
In writingabout once in every 15 million words; the 115,751st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is corneum?

Corneum appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 115,751st 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 corneum?

  • /ˈkɔː(ɹ)ni.əm/

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

What does corneum mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The outermost layer of the skin.

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

Where does corneum come from?

From Latin corneum.

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

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