cornflakes
/ˈkɔːnfleɪks/
"cornflakes" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cornflakes” is uncommon English (frequency #54,710 among 43,570 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,710
- frequency rank, English
- 43,570
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A breakfast cereal made from toasted flakes of maize.
| 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) |
Where “cornflakes” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
cornflakes is uncommon English at frequency #54,710 among 43,570 “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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Using “cornflakes”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-O-R-N-F-L-A-K-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈkɔːnfleɪks/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.