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flavor

/ˈfleɪvɚ/noun, verb

flavor is spelled F-L-A-V-O-R: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 11 times per million words in written English, the 6,674th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, flavor means “The quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of flavor is flavors.

How many letters and syllables are in flavor?

Letters6: F-L-A-V-O-R
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing11 times per million words; the 6,674th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is flavor?

Flavor appears 11 times per million words in written English, the 6,674th 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).

How do you pronounce flavor?

  • UK /ˈfleɪvə/
  • US /ˈfleɪvɚ/
  • Australia /ˈflæɪvə/

Flavor has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-flavour.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vininn126-flavor.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with flavor?

9 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as flavor from its last stressed vowel (/eɪvəɹ/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of flavor

  • flavors plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • flavour UK
  • flavuh
  • flavoring participle, present
  • flavored participle, past

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

What does flavor mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    USThe quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect.

    The flavor of this apple pie is delicious.

  2. 2

    USFlavoring, a substance used to produce a taste.

    Flavor was added to the pudding.

  3. 3

    USA variety (of taste) attributed to an object (food, candy, chewing gum, medicine, etc).

    What flavor of bubble gum do you most enjoy?

  4. 4

    USThe characteristic quality of something.

    the flavor of an experience

  5. 5

    USinformalA kind or type.

    Debian is one flavor of the Linux operating system.

  6. 6

    USslangStyle.

  7. 7

    USOne of the six types of quarks (top, bottom, strange, charmed, up, and down) or three types of leptons (electron, muon, and tauon).

  8. 8

    USarchaicThe quality produced by the sensation of smell; odour; fragrance.

    the flavor of a rose

verb

  1. 1

    USTo add flavoring to something.

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

Flavor in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchgoût, saveur (the quality produced by the sensation of taste), assaisonner (to add flavoring to something)
GermanGeschmack (the quality produced by the sensation of taste), würzen (to add flavoring to something), Geschmacksstoff, Geschmacksverstärker (a substance used to produce a taste)
Portuguesesabor, gosto (the quality produced by the sensation of taste), condimentar (to add flavoring to something), condimento (a substance used to produce a taste)
Spanishsabor, gusto, sazón (the quality produced by the sensation of taste), saborizar, condimentar (to add flavoring to something)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does flavor come from?

From Middle English flavour meaning “smell, odour”, usually pleasing, borrowed from Old French flaour (“smell, odour”) (cfr.

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

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