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flavortext

flavortext is the alternative spelling of flavor text.

Meaning of flavor text

Noun

flavor text (countable and uncountable, plural flavor texts)

  1. Text printed on a card or within the rulebook of a tabletop game or a menu in a video game which does not affect the game's mechanics, but gives background information on characters, places, etc. to enhance the game's atmosphere.
    • In the old days of Magic the Gathering, the flavor text was almost all serious, sometimes even with quotes from Shakespeare or Edgar Allen Poe thrown in.2008, Game Developer, Volume 15, Issues 7-11, unknown page

Forms of flavortext

pluralflavortexts

Questions about flavortext

What is flavortext the alternative spelling of?
Flavortext is the alternative spelling of flavor text.

Words near flavortext in the dictionary

  1. flavors of the week
  2. flavors up
  3. flavorsome
  4. flavorsomely
  5. flavorsomeness
  6. flavortext
  7. flavortexts
  8. flavorubredoxin
  9. flavorwise
  10. flavorwood
  11. flavory

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Adapted from Wiktionary: flavortext (page history and authors); flavor text (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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