cornhole
/ˈkɔɹnˌhoʊl/
"cornhole" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cornhole” is uncommon English (frequency #73,986 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,986
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A small room connected to a threshing floor.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cornhole · cornhole · English
cornhole · rank #73,986 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,986
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH cordy
Nearest frequency peer: cordy (-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 “cornhole”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- contentedly
contentedly
26,022 corpus weight
- contortioni…
contortionist
26,020 corpus weight
- cordy
cordy
26,016 corpus weight
- cornhole
cornhole
26,015 corpus weight
- corrin
corrin
26,012 corpus weight
- Cortlandt
Cortlandt
26,011 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “cornhole” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cornhole |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkɔɹnˌhoʊl/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #73,986 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cornhole” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cornhole is uncommon English at frequency #73,986 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈkɔɹnˌhoʊl/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for cornhole in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: From corn + hole. (anus): From the old-fashioned practice of using dried corncobs instead of toilet paper in outdoor privies. The correct English form is cornhole, spelled C-O-R-N-H-O-L-E.
Definition
- 1A small room connected to a threshing floor.
- 2A game similar to beanbag toss, popular in Ohio, in which a bag filled with corn feed is thrown into a hole.
- 3The anus.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cornhole appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The cornhole was a small, brick room opening off the threshing floor, about six or seven feet high, […] variously known as the cornhole or cornbin, and was designed for flail threshing, holding the grain until it was winnowed.
A small room may be found opening off the threshing floor on one side […] This is the cornhole, a mid-eighteenth-century development so far known only in Staffordshire and Suffolk, with a few in east Sussex.
Etymology
From corn + hole. (anus): From the old-fashioned practice of using dried corncobs instead of toilet paper in outdoor privies.
Synonyms
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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