# horner

> English word · Noun · frequency rank #27,500

## Definitions
1. Someone who works or deals in (animal) horn or horns.
2. Someone who blows a horn (for communication or musical purposes); a hornblower.
3. Someone who cuckolds.
4. The British sand lance or sand eel, Hyperoplus lanceolatus.
5. Someone from the Horn of Africa.

## Etymology
From Middle English horner, hornere, equivalent to horn + -er.

## Easily confused with
- **horse** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/horner-vs-horse)
- **horns** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/horner-vs-horns)
- **horny** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/horner-vs-horny)
- **hover** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/horner-vs-hover)
- **hoyer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/horner-vs-hoyer)
- **horses** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/horner-vs-horses)
- **horror** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/horner-vs-horror)
- **hotter** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/horner-vs-hotter)
- **hornet** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/horner-vs-hornet)
- **horn** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/horn-vs-horner)
- **hone** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hone-vs-horner)
- **honor** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/honor-vs-horner)
- **honey** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/honey-vs-horner)
- **homer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/homer-vs-horner)
- **horde** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/horde-vs-horner)
- **honed** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/honed-vs-horner)
- **harder** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/harder-vs-horner)
- **holder** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/holder-vs-horner)
- **harper** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/harper-vs-horner)
- **hooker** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hooker-vs-horner)

## Common misspellings (9)
`hhorner`, `honrer`, `horenr`, `hornerr`, `hornner`, `hornre`, `horrner`, `hroner`, `ohrner`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/horner