cornel

Other forms of cornel

plural

cornels·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cornel

What does cornel mean?

cornel means "a tree of shrub of the genus Cornus often having showy bracts resembling flowers".

How many syllables are in cornel?

cornel has 2 syllables: cor-nel. The stress falls on "cor". In IPA it is /ˈkɔɹnəl/.

What is another word for cornel?

Close synonyms include dogwood, dogwood tree. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cornel a common word?

cornel is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.