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6-letter words (2 found)

CORNET,CRONET,

5-letter words (13 found)

CENTO,CONTE,CRONE,NOTER,ONCER,ONCET,RECON,RECTO,RONTE,TENOR,TONER,TRONC,TRONE,

4-letter words (22 found)

CENT,CERO,CERT,CONE,CORE,CORN,COTE,CRON,NOTE,ONCE,ONER,RENO,RENT,RONE,RONT,ROTE,TERN,TONE,TORC,TORE,TORN,TRON,

3-letter words (26 found)

CON,COR,COT,ECO,EON,ERN,NET,NOR,NOT,ONE,ORC,ORE,ORT,REC,REN,REO,RET,ROC,ROE,ROT,TEC,TEN,TOC,TOE,TON,TOR,

2-letter words (11 found)

EN,ER,ET,NE,NO,OE,ON,OR,RE,TE,TO,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 75 words from cornet according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of cornet

cornet

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /kɔɹˈnɛt/
  • Rhymes: -ɛt
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkɔːnɪt/
  • Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)nɪt

Etymology 1

From Middle English cornet, from Old French cornet, a diminutive of a popular reflex of Latin cornū (“horn”).

Noun

cornet (plural cornets)

  1. A musical instrument of the brass family, slightly smaller than a trumpet, usually in the musical key of B-flat.
    Synonyms: cornet-à-piston, cornet-à-pistons
  2. A piece of paper twisted to be used as a container.
  3. A pastry shell to be filled with ice-cream, hence (UK, dated) an ice cream cone.
  4. (obsolete) A troop of cavalry; so called from its being accompanied by a cornet player.
  5. A kind of organ stop.
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle French cornette, diminutive of corne, from Latin cornua (“horns”).

Noun

cornet (plural cornets)

  1. The white headdress worn by the Sisters of Charity.
  2. (obsolete) The standard flown by a cavalry troop.
  3. (historical) The fifth commissioned officer in a cavalry troop, who carried the colours (equivalent to the ensign in infantry).
    • 1999, Mike Mitchell, translating HJC von Grimmelshausen, Simplicissimus, III.14, Dedalus 2016, p. 253:
      This cornet [translating Cornet] was a brave young cavalier and not more than two years older than me.
Derived terms
  • cornetcy
Translations

Anagrams

  • Cotner, centro-, corten, creton, cronet, retcon

French

Etymology

From corne +‎ -et.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɔʁ.nɛ/

Noun

cornet m (plural cornets)

  1. (paper) cone
  2. (pastry) horn; (ice-cream) cone
  3. post horn
  4. (music) cornet; cornet stop (on organ)
  5. portable inkhorn
  6. (Switzerland) plastic bag
  7. ear trumpet

Descendants

  • → English: cornet
  • → Switzerland German: Cornet

See also

  • cornette

References

  • Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition

Further reading

  • “cornet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

  • conter, contre, contré

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • cornette

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French cornet; equivalent to corne (“callus”) +‎ -et.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɔrnit/, /ˈkɔrnɛt/

Noun

cornet (plural cornettes)

  1. A cornet (musical instrument).
  2. (rare) A triangle-shaped slice of bread.

Descendants

  • English: cornet

References

  • “cornet, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-08.

Romanian

Etymology

From corn +‎ -et.

Noun

cornet n (plural corneturi)

  1. cornel grove

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