Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sweet corn

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.11 in modern English

Syllables: sweet- -corn
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of many varieties of corn (specifically maize) most suitable for eating by humans, as distinguished from corn raised as animal feed; usually with higher sugar content than field corn.

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

sweet corns (plural) sweetcorn (alternative) sweet-corn (alternative)

Phrases

sweetcorn bread

Synonyms

pole corn sugar corn green corn sweet corn plant zea mays rugosa zea saccharata

Questions

What does sweet corn mean?: Any of many varieties of corn (specifically maize) most suitable for eating by humans, as distinguished from corn raised as animal feed; usually with higher sugar content than field corn.

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