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corona

co·ro·na/kəˈɹoʊ.nə/noun, verb

corona is spelled C-O-R-O-N-A: 6 letters and 3 syllables (co·ro·na). It appears 2.6 times per million words in written English, the 16,687th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, corona means “A large, round, pendent chandelier, with spikes around its upper rim to hold candles or lamps, usually hung from the roof of a church” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of corona is coronas or coronae; Wiktionary also lists coronæ (obsolete).

How many letters and syllables are in corona?

Letters6: C-O-R-O-N-A
Syllables3: co·ro·na
In writing2.6 times per million words; the 16,687th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is corona?

Corona appears 2.6 times per million words in written English, the 16,687th 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).

How do you pronounce corona?

  • UK /kəˈɹəʊ.nə/
  • US /kəˈɹoʊ.nə/
  • /kɵˈronɑ/

Corona has 3 syllables, split co·ro·na in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-corona.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with corona?

7 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as corona from its last stressed vowel (/oʊnə/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: racoon.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of corona

  • coronas plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • coronae plural
  • coronaing participle, present
  • coronaed participle, past
  • corone plural

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

What does corona mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A large, round, pendent chandelier, with spikes around its upper rim to hold candles or lamps, usually hung from the roof of a church.

  2. 2

    A region of the skull located along the coronal suture, at the junction between the frontal bone and the two parietal bones.

  3. 3

    The external (supragingival) portion of the tooth, covered by enamel; the crown.

  4. 4

    The circumference of the base of the glans penis in human males.

  5. 5

    The large, flat, projecting member of a cornice which crowns the entablature, situated above the bed moulding and below the cymatium.

  6. 6

    The luminous plasma atmosphere of the Sun (the solar corona) or other star, extending millions of kilometres into space, most easily seen during a total solar eclipse.

  7. 7

    An oval-shaped astrogeological feature, present on both the planet Venus and Uranus's moon Miranda, probably formed by upwellings of warm material below the surface.

  8. 8

    Any luminous or crownlike ring around an object or person.

  9. 9

    informalA coronavirus, especially SARS-CoV-2.

    The recent surge of deaths due to corona reveals the shortcomings of our current healthcare system.

  10. 10

    informalA disease caused by a coronavirus, especially COVID-19.

    She caught corona last week.

  11. 11

    A series of sonnets linked together such that the last word of each is the first word of the next.

  12. 12

    A long, straight-sided cigar with a blunt, rounded end.

noun

as Corona
  1. 1

    A pale lager beer produced by Mexican brewery Grupo Modelo, commonly served with a wedge of lime or lemon in the neck of the bottle.

    He ordered two Coronas at the bar.

  2. 2

    Alternative letter-case form of corona (“a coronavirus, especially SARS-CoV-2”).

  3. 3

    Alternative letter-case form of corona (“a disease caused by a coronavirus, especially COVID-19”).

  4. 4

    Alternative letter-case form of corona (“a long, straight-sided cigar with a blunt, rounded end”).

verb

  1. 1

    rareTo surround with a luminous or crownlike ring like the solar corona.

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

Corona in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchcouronne (circumference of the base of the glans penis in…)
GermanKorona (luminous plasma atmosphere of the Sun or other…), Krone (crown or garland bestowed among the Romans as a…)
Portuguesecoroa, corona (luminous plasma atmosphere of the Sun or other…)
Spanishcorona (luminous plasma atmosphere of the Sun or other…)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does corona come from?

The noun is borrowed from Latin corōna (“crown; garland, wreath”), from Ancient Greek κορώνη (korṓnē, “type of crown; curved object (door handle, tip of a bow, stern of a ship, etc.)”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). The English word is a doublet of crown, korona, koruna, krona, króna, and krone. The plural form coronae is borrowed from Latin corōnae. The verb is derived from the noun.

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

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