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Synonyms for flour

  • noun

Most common

white flour plain flour wheat flour smeddum meal farina

All synonyms

Noun

1. Wheat flour — the food made by grinding and bolting cleaned wheat (not durum or red durum) until it meets specified levels…

wheat flour, white flour, plain flour, smeddum, wheatmeal

Other

meal, dredge, farina

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    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.

Related words

Word family
flourlike floursack
Phrases
wheat flour flour moth rock flour strong flour plain flour all-purpose flour bread flour flour paste

Forms

Plural
flours → wheatmeals, meals, dredges, farinas…

Example sentences

  • meal Would you like your coffee with or after the meal?

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
floursteady
smeddumsteady
mealrising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters
meal1
6 letters
dredge1, farina3
7 letters
smeddum
9 letters
wheatmeal

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (farina3 = 3 syllables).

In other languages

Français
farine
Deutsch
Mehl