corn

noun

Letters

4 characters

Frequency Rank

#16,103

in French word usage

Misspellings

6

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

corn is aFrenchnoun. It means: Corne. Often confused with CR and cru.

Key facts for corn
PropertyValue
Headwordcorn
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters4
Frequency rank#16,103
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of corn in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for corn is 4 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #16,103 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Corne.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for corn, with forms such as "ccorn", "conr", and "cornn". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CR", "cru", "cou", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is corn, spelled C-O-R-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Corne.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ccorn,conr,cornn,corrn,cron,ocrn

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for corn

Misspelling Variants of "corn"

ccorn5conr4cornn5corrn5cron4ocrn4
Misspelling Variants of "corn"

Frequency rank: #16,103 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "corn"?
"corn" is spelled C-O-R-N.
What does "corn" mean?
As a noun, "corn" means: Corne.
What words are commonly confused with "corn"?
"corn" is commonly confused with "CR", "cru", "cou". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "corn" come from?
"corn" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Other entries that begin with the letter C in our French index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.