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flour

/ˈflaʊ.ɚ/

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: 4.00 in modern English

Syllables
flour
IPA
/ˈflaʊ.ɚ/
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, or other foodstuffs such as soybeans and potatoes, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry.

Uncountable

noun

The food made by grinding and bolting cleaned wheat (not durum or red durum) until it meets specified levels of fineness, dryness, and freedom from bran and germ, also containing any of certain enzymes, ascorbic acid, and certain bleaching agents.

Uncountable

noun

Powder of other material.

Uncountable

noun

Obsolete form of flower.

Obsolete; Uncountable

verb

To apply flour to something; to cover with flour.

Transitive verb

verb

To reduce to flour.

Transitive verb

verb

To break up into fine globules of mercury in the amalgamation process.

Intransitive verb

Example Sentences

Etymology

Spelled (until about 1830) and meaning flower in the sense of flour being the "finest portion of ground grain" (compare French fleur de farine, fine fleur). Doublet of fleur, flor, and flower. Partially displaced native meal. The U.S. standard of identity comes from 21CFR137.105.

Word Breakdown

Regional Pronunciation

  • American English: /ˈflaʊ.ɚ/
  • British English: /ˈflaʊ.ə/

Usage

Subject

Wiktionary places this term in Food.

Inflected Forms

flours (plural) flower (alternative, obsolete) flours (present, singular) flouring (participle, present) floured (participle, past) floured (past)

Derived Forms

beanflour beflour cornflour flourless flourlike flourman flourmill floursack nonflour reflour unfloured

Phrases

all-purpose flour bread flour cold flour cricket flour flour beetle flour corn flour gold flour mill

Frequently Paired Words

bran farina meal smeddum wheatmeal meal[Appendix:Glossary

Synonyms

smeddum plain flour wheat flour wheatmeal white flour

Homonyms

flower (for people who pronounce flour as two syllables or flower as one)

Rhymes With

our power hour tower shower flower sour empower bauer superpower devour bower

Questions

How do you pronounce flour?
The recorded pronunciation is /ˈflaʊ.ɚ/.
What does flour mean?
Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, or other foodstuffs such as soybeans and potatoes, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry.
Where does flour come from?
Spelled (until about 1830) and meaning flower in the sense of flour being the "finest portion of ground grain" (compare French fleur de farine, fine fleur). Doublet of fleur, flor, and flower. Partially displaced native meal. The U.S. standard of identity comes from 21CFR137.105.

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