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corno

noun

corno is a noun meaning “French horn” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-O-R-N-O, and it appears about once in every 31 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of corno is corni.

What does corno mean?

noun

  1. 1

    French horn

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

Forms of corno

  • corni plural

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

How common is corno?

Corno appears about once in every 31 million words in written English, the 169,822nd 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).

Where does corno come from?

From Italian corno, from Latin cornu (“horn”). Doublet of corn (“callus”), cornu, and horn.

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