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Spell Bee Word: Flour


What does flour mean?

Word: Flour

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Flour means a fine powder made by grinding wheat or other grains. We use it to make rotis, bread and cakes.

Sounds like: flower (the coloured part of a plant, like a rose or a marigold)

How do you spell flour?

Syllables: flour

Tricky part: Flour sounds exactly like flower, the part of a plant. The two words are spelt differently, so think about the meaning before you write.

Watch out for: flouwr, flur

Memory tip: Flour is the shorter word: five letters for the fine white powder, six for the flower in the garden.

Flour in a sentence

Example 1: Mumma mixed flour and water to make dough.

Example 2: There is flour on your nose.

Example 3: We need two cups of flour for the cake.

Fun Fact

Atta is whole wheat flour, while maida is wheat flour with the bran taken out, which makes it whiter.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) floar
b) flour
c) flaur
d) flawr

Show answer

b) flour. Flour is spelt with ou, as in out.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

fllour

a) u
b) o
c) l
d) f

Show answer

c) l. Flour has only one l, straight after the f.

Word Chain

Complete the word sequence:

wheat, ____, dough, roti

a) jam
b) flour
c) salt
d) sugar

Show answer

b) flour. Wheat is ground into flour, flour and water make dough, and the dough is rolled out into a roti.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Ravi dropped flour all over the kitchen tabel.

a) Ravi
b) dropped
c) tabel
d) kitchen

Show answer

c) tabel. Table ends in le, not el.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does flour feel like?

a) soft and powdery
b) hot and spicy
c) hard and sharp
d) wet and sticky

Show answer

a) soft and powdery

2. Mumma uses flour to make ____.

a) lemon juice
b) boiled eggs
c) biscuits
d) fruit salad

Show answer

c) biscuits

Associated Words

Words that end in -our: sour, your, hour, behaviour, harbour, honour

More words from this list

inspect, nest, result, soup, unicycle, avoid, camera, dancer

Next steps

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