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Plural of flour

regular plural

The plural of flour is flours.

Forms of flour

Singularflour /ˈflaʊ.ə/
Pluralflours
Countableusually uncountable

Flours in a sentence

  • Graham flour is unbolted flour; in contrast, some other flours have been bolted.From the entry bolt
  • Pastry flour: patent and clears from soft wheat flours may be blended to produce pastry flour.2003, Amalendu Chakraverty, editor, Handbook of Postharvest Technology: Cereals, Fruits, Vegetables, Tea, and Spices, page 313. From the entry clears
  • I find that buckwheat, wholewheat and oatflake flours give the best results.1979, Sue Bennett, Food Naturally: A Wholefood Cookbook, London: W. H. Allen, →ISBN, pages 28, 69, and 130. From the entry oatflake
  • To a certain degree they might assess the kneadability of dough and the mixing recipes for different flours.1979, Philip Sherman, Food Texture and Rheology, Academic Press. From the entry bakeability
  • Having been on the lookout for some specialty flours of late, I was told by a friend that all of King Arthur's commercial-grade flours are under hashgachah.2003 May 19, Lawrence Szenes-Strauss, “King Arthur Flour”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet). From the entry hashgacha

Meaning of flour

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. noun Powder of other material.

Full definition of flour

Questions about the plural of flour

What is the plural of flour?
The plural of flour is flours.
Is flour countable?
Flour is usually an uncountable noun; its plural is used for kinds or examples of it.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: flour (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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