cornflakes
/ˈkɔːnfleɪks/
"cornflakes" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cornflakes” is uncommon English (frequency #54,710 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,710
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A breakfast cereal made from toasted flakes of maize.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cornflakes · cornflakes · English
cornflakes · rank #54,710 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,710
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH copilot
Nearest frequency peer: copilot (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “cornflakes”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- cooped
cooped
45,294 corpus weight
- Coote
Coote
45,293 corpus weight
- copilot
copilot
45,292 corpus weight
- cornflakes
cornflakes
45,291 corpus weight
- cornmeal
cornmeal
45,290 corpus weight
- courtside
courtside
45,288 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “cornflakes” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cornflakes |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkɔːnfleɪks/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #54,710 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cornflakes” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cornflakes is uncommon English at frequency #54,710 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈkɔːnfleɪks/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A breakfast cereal made from toasted flakes of maize.".
cornflakes doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is cornflakes, spelled C-O-R-N-F-L-A-K-E-S.
Definition
- 1A breakfast cereal made from toasted flakes of maize.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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