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Is corny a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word corny is a Scrabble US word. The word corny is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

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Is corny a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word corny is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

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Yes. The word corny is a Words With Friends word. The word corny is worth 11 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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5-letter words (2 found)

CORNY,CRONY,

4-letter words (4 found)

CONY,CORN,CORY,CRON,

3-letter words (10 found)

CON,COR,COY,CRY,NOR,NOY,ONY,ORC,ROC,YON,

2-letter words (6 found)

NO,NY,ON,OR,OY,YO,

You can make 22 words from corny according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of corny

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Definitions and meaning of corny

corny

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɔːni/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkɔɹni/
  • Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ni

Etymology 1

From Middle English corny, equivalent to corn +‎ -y. In the "hackneyed" sense, from "corn catalogue jokes", reputedly low-quality jokes that were formerly printed in mail-order seed catalogues.

Adjective

corny (comparative cornier, superlative corniest)

  1. Boring and unoriginal.
  2. Hackneyed or excessively sentimental.
    Synonyms: kitsch, kitschy, cheesy, tacky, campy, schlocky, schmaltzy
  3. (African-American Vernacular, slang) Uncool, stupid, lame.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:corny.
  4. (rare) Containing corn.
  5. (obsolete) Producing corn or grain; furnished with grains of corn.
  6. (obsolete, UK, slang) Tipsy; drunk.
    Synonyms: drunkish, squiffy; see also Thesaurus:drunk
  7. (euphemistic) Horny.
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Etymology 2

Latin cornu (“horn”).

Adjective

corny (comparative more corny, superlative most corny)

  1. (obsolete) Strong, stiff, or hard, like a horn; resembling horn.

Further reading

  • Jonathon Green (2024) “corny adj.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Anagrams

  • Conry, crony, croyn, cry on

Middle English

Etymology

From corn +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɔrniː/, /ˈkoːrniː/

Adjective

corny

  1. (rare) fleshy, swollen
  2. (rare) containing corn; tasting of malt, tasting well of malt, malty
  3. (rare) resembling a grain

Descendants

  • English: corny
  • Scots: cornie (obsolete, rare)
  • Yola: cornee, kurnee

References

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

Source: wiktionary.org