How to spell corn

hear itcorn/kɔrn/nounStarter

What it means: A type of grain commonly grown.

In a sentence: The farmer planted rows of corn in the field.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as korn or cornn.

Same family: corns, corny, callus, blister, podiatrist. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The medical sense of "corn" for a hard spot on the skin comes from Old English and is related to the idea of something small and hard like a grain. Over time, English kept both meanings: the grain we eat and the hard, kernel-like bump on the skin.

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