# farina

> English word · Noun · IPA /fəˈɹiːnə/ · frequency rank #42,637

## Definitions
1. A fine flour or meal made from cereal grains or from the starch or fecula of vegetables, extracted by various processes, and used in cookery.
2. A particular grade of wheat meal, commonly used as hot breakfast cereal in North America.
3. A powdery, pale yellow, crystalline secretion consisting of flavonoids in Primula and other species.
4. Hot breakfast cereal made from prepared farina in milk.

## Etymology
Borrowed from Latin farīna (“flour, meal”), from far (“kind of grain”).

## Easily confused with
- **fina** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/farina-vs-fina)
- **fauna** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/farina-vs-fauna)
- **Frida** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/farina-vs-frida)
- **firing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/farina-vs-firing)
- **Fatima** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/farina-vs-fatima)
- **faring** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/farina-vs-faring)
- **farming** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/farina-vs-farming)
- **farting** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/farina-vs-farting)
- **flaring** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/farina-vs-flaring)
- **faint** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/faint-vs-farina)
- **facing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/facing-vs-farina)
- **fading** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fading-vs-farina)
- **famine** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/famine-vs-farina)
- **faking** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/faking-vs-farina)
- **fairing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fairing-vs-farina)

## Common misspellings (8)
`afrina`, `fairna`, `farian`, `farinna`, `farnia`, `farrina`, `ffarina`, `fraina`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/farina