cornish

Other forms of cornish

plural

cornishes·

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 cornish

What does cornish mean?

cornish means "a Celtic language spoken in Cornwall". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cornish?

cornish has 2 syllables: cor-nish. The stress falls on "cor". In IPA it is /ˈkɔɹnɪʃ/.

What is another word for cornish?

Close synonyms include Cornish fowl. 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 cornish a common word?

cornish 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.