cornflower
/ˈkɔɹnˌflaʊ.ɚ/
"cornflower" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cornflower” is uncommon English (frequency #79,411 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,411
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A small annual plant in the family Asteraceae, Centaurea cyanus, usually with bushy blue flowers which grows natively in European cornfields (i.e. wheatfields).
Corpus desk
Index EN-cornflower · cornflower · English
cornflower · rank #79,411 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,411
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH corniche
Nearest frequency peer: corniche (+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 “cornflower”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- compositor
compositor
20,597 corpus weight
- copra
copra
20,593 corpus weight
- cornflower
cornflower
20,590 corpus weight
- corniche
corniche
20,589 corpus weight
- corruptible
corruptible
20,587 corpus weight
- cottontail
cottontail
20,585 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “cornflower” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cornflower |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkɔɹnˌflaʊ.ɚ/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #79,411 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cornflower” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cornflower is uncommon English at frequency #79,411 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈkɔɹnˌflaʊ.ɚ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
cornflower has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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.
Etymologically, the entry records: From corn + flower. Piecewise doublet of cornflour. The correct English form is cornflower, spelled C-O-R-N-F-L-O-W-E-R.
Definition
- 1A small annual plant in the family Asteraceae, Centaurea cyanus, usually with bushy blue flowers which grows natively in European cornfields (i.e. wheatfields).
- 2A plant of the species Cichorium intybus.
- 3A color, cornflower blue.
Etymology
From corn + flower. Piecewise doublet of cornflour.
Synonyms
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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