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flavour

noun, verb

flavour is a noun meaning “British standard spelling of flavor” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-A-V-O-U-R, and it appears 5.4 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of flavour is flavours.

What does flavour mean?

noun

  1. 1

    British standard spelling of flavor.

    The flavour of this apple pie is delicious.

verb

  1. 1

    British standard spelling of flavor.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce flavour?

  • US

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-flavour.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of flavour

  • flavours plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • flavor US
  • flavouring participle, present
  • flavoured participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is flavour?

Flavour appears 5.4 times per million words in written English, the 10,680th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).