corn: meaning and words from its letters
4 letters · 6 letter points · starts with C · ends with N
Meaning of corn
noun
- Commonwealth, uncountable, usually
Any cereal plant (or its grain) that is the main crop or staple of a country or region.
- Australia, Canada, New-Zealand, US, uncountable, usually
Maize, a grain crop of the species Zea mays.
- uncountable, usually
A single seed of a food crop, especially a cereal grass crop.
Example: He paid her the nominal fee of two corns of barley.
- uncountable, usually
A small, hard particle.
Listed forms: corns.
Source: Wiktionary — corn.
verb
- Canada, US, transitive
To granulate; to form (a substance) into grains.
Example: to corn gunpowder
- Canada, US, transitive
To preserve using coarse salt, e.g. corned beef.
- Canada, US, transitive
To provide (an animal) with corn (typically maize; or, in Scotland, oats) for feed.
Example: Corn the horses.
- Jamaica, Multicultural-London-English, slang, transitive
To shoot up with bullets as by a shotgun (corn).
Listed forms: corns, corning, corned.
Source: Wiktionary — corn.
noun
- transitive
A type of callus, usually on the feet or hands.
- transitive
An inflammatory disease of a horse's hoof, at the caudal part of the sole.
- transitive
Skin hyperplasia with underlying fibroma between both digits of cattle.
Listed forms: corns.
Source: Wiktionary — corn.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for corn.
noun
tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times
- maize
- Indian corn
- Zea mays
noun
ears of corn that can be prepared and served for human food
- edible corn
noun
a hard thickening of the skin (especially on the top or sides of the toes) caused by the pressure of ill-fitting shoes
noun
whiskey distilled from a mash of not less than 80 percent corn
- corn whiskey
- corn whisky
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is corn in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
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| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of corn
C(3) + O(1) + R(1) + N(1) = 6 points.
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Anagrams of corn
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from corn
9 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in corn. Showing up to 24, longest first.