corn

corn - noun

  • A small hard particle : grain
  • A small hard seed
  • The grain of a cereal grass that is the primary crop of a region (such as wheat in Britain and oats in Scotland and Ireland)
  • A tall annual cereal grass (Zea mays) originally domesticated in Mexico and widely grown for its large elongated ears of starchy seeds
Source: Merriam-Webster Dictionary API

SpellingJoy score for corn

SpellingJoy Gematria

📚 Apprentice
88

Letter Values

C
6
O
15
R
19
N
17

Etymology

Middle English, going back to Old English, "grain of a cereal grass, seed, berry," going back to Germanic *kurno- (whence also Old Frisian, Old Saxon, Old High German & Old Norse korn "grain of a cereal grass, seed," Gothic kaurn), going back to European Indo-European *ǵr̥H-no-, whence also Latin grānum "seed, especially of a cereal grass," Old Irish grán, Welsh grawn, Old Church Slavic zrĭno "grain, seed," Serbian & Croatian zȑno, Russian zernó, Lithuanian žìrnis "pea"