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flavour text

flavour text 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 flavour text

pluralflavour texts

Questions about flavour text

What is flavour text the alternative spelling of?
Flavour text is the alternative spelling of flavor text.

Words near flavour text in the dictionary

  1. flavour fatigue
  2. flavour of the month
  3. flavour of the week
  4. flavour saver
  5. flavour savers
  6. flavour text
  7. flavour texts
  8. flavourant
  9. flavourants
  10. flavourdynamics
  11. flavoured

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Adapted from Wiktionary: flavour text (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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