What does cornflour mean?
Word: Cornflour
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Cornflour means a fine white powder used in cooking to make sauces, soups and custards thicker.
How do you spell cornflour?
Syllables: corn - flour
Tricky part: The second part sounds just like flower, the part of a plant, so students often spell it that way.
Watch out for: cornflor, cornflowr
Memory tip: Flour for cooking hides the word our, just right for the cornflour in our kitchen.
Cornflour in a sentence
Example 1: Mum mixed a spoonful of cornflour into the soup to finish it.
Example 2: A little cornflour makes the coating on these vegetable fritters extra crisp.
Example 3: The custard turned smooth and glossy once Grandma stirred in the cornflour.
Fun Fact
In American English cornflour is usually called cornstarch, so a recipe from the USA that asks for cornstarch means this same white powder.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Makeup
Choose the correctly spelt compound word:
a) breadcrums
b) cornflour
c) teaspone
d) buttermilck
Show answer
b) cornflour. Breadcrumbs keeps a silent b, teaspoon ends in oon and buttermilk ends in a plain k.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
ofrcunolr
a) colourful
b) uniform
c) forum
d) cornflour
Show answer
d) cornflour. Colourful needs a second u and a second l, while uniform and forum both need an m, so only one word uses all nine letters.
Word Cookie
Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:
c_r_flour
a) o,m
b) a,n
c) u,n
d) o,n
Show answer
d) o,n. Start with the name of the yellow grain that grows on a cob.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) spatulla
b) ingrediant
c) cornflour
d) recipie
Show answer
c) cornflour. Recipe ends in a plain pe, ingredient ends in ent, and spatula has a single l.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Cornflour is made from which crop?
a) wheat
b) rice
c) barley
d) maize
Show answer
d) maize
2. If you mix cornflour with a little cold water, you get ____.
a) a bright pink dye
b) a hard lump of ice
c) a smooth white paste
d) a fizzy drink
Show answer
c) a smooth white paste
