flour

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flour

/ˈflaʊ.ə/ UK
[ˈflaʊ̯.ə] UK
/ˈflæʊ.ə/
[ˈflæʊ̯.ə]
/ˈflaː.ə/
[ˈflaː.ə]
/ˈflaʊ.ɚ/ Canadian, US, Standard
[ˈflaʊ̯.ɚ] ~ [ˈflaʊ̯.ɹ̩] Canadian, US, Standard
/ˈflæʊ.ɚ/
[ˈflæʊ̯.ɚ] ~ [ˈflæʊ̯.ɹ̩]
/ˈflaʊ.əɾ/ Scotland
[ˈflaʊ̯.əɾ] Scotland
/ˈflaː.ɚ/
[ˈflaː.ɚ] ~ [ˈflaː.ɹ̩]
/flaː(r)/ India, South Asia
/ˈflɑː/ Singapore
[ˈfläː] Singapore
/ˈflɐɹ/ Philippines
[ˈflɐɹ] Philippines
/ˈflɑɹ/ Philippines
[ˈflɑɹ] Philippines

Sounds like flower (for people who pronounce flour as two syllables or flower as one) · Rhymes with -aʊə(ɹ)

Where it comes 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.

noun flours · flower

uncountable, usually 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. Everything a living animal could do to destroy and to desecrate bed and walls had been done. […] A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a pl
uncountable, usually 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.
Similar: smeddum, plain flour, wheat flour, wheatmeal, white flour
uncountable, usually Powder of other material. almond flour
obsolete, uncountable, usually Obsolete form of flower that nobody is wished to see my dead body. & that no murnurs walk behind me at my funeral. & that no flours be planted on my grave.

verb flours · flouring · floured · flower

transitive To apply flour to something; to cover with flour. Flour the surface before rolling out the dough.
transitive To reduce to flour.
intransitive To break up into fine globules of mercury in the amalgamation process.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: wheat, fishmeal, meal, feed, milling, powder, bonemeal, fluorine, fluoride, fan, earth, strict, wed, delicate, close, strictly

Translations

Every language

noun ground cereal grains or other foodstuff

Español	harina, farina (disused), fariña, granillo, chuno, soma
한국어	밀가루 milgaru, 가루 garu
日本語	穀粉 kokufun, 小麦粉 komugiko, メリケン粉 merikenko
中文	麵粉 /面粉 miànfěn
हिन्दी	आटा āṭā
Português	farinha
Français	farine
Deutsch	Mehl
Italiano	farina
Ελληνικά	αλεύρι alévri
Română	făină
Русский	мука́ muká
Tiếng Việt	bột, phấn
العربية	طَحِين ṭaḥīn, دَقِيق daqīq
עברית	קֶמַח kémakh

noun powder of other material

한국어	가루 garu
Ελληνικά	σκόνη skóni
Русский	мука́ muká, порошо́к porošók, пыль pylʹ

verb to apply flour to something

Español	enharinar
Português	enfarinhar
Français	fariner, enfariner
Deutsch	bemehlen
Italiano	infarinare
Ελληνικά	αλευρώνω alevróno

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@misc{flour_2026,
  title = {flour},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/flour},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}