cornpone
/ˈkɔnpəʊn/noun
cornpone is a noun meaning “A form of cornbread made without milk or eggs” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-O-R-N-P-O-N-E, and it appears about once in every 95 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of cornpone is cornpones.
What does cornpone mean?
noun
- 1
USA form of cornbread made without milk or eggs.
- 2
derogatorySomething or someone considered stereotypical of rural, Southern US attitudes or attributes.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce cornpone?
- UK /ˈkɔnpəʊn/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of cornpone
- cornpones plural
- corn pone
- corn-pone
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is cornpone?
Cornpone appears about once in every 95 million words in written English, the 313,259th 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 cornpone come from?
From corn + pone.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).