# flavor

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈfleɪvə/ · frequency rank #6,687

## Definitions
1. The quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect.
2. Flavoring, a substance used to produce a taste.
3. A variety (of taste) attributed to an object (food, candy, chewing gum, medicine, etc).
4. The characteristic quality of something.
5. A kind or type.
6. Style.
7. One of the six types of quarks (top, bottom, strange, charmed, up, and down) or three types of leptons (electron, muon, and tauon).
8. The quality produced by the sensation of smell; odour; fragrance.

## Etymology
From Middle English flavour meaning “smell, odour”, usually pleasing, borrowed from Old French flaour (“smell, odour”) (cfr. Sicilian ciàguru, its etymology and semantic), from Vulgar Latin *flātor (“odour, that which blows”), from Latin flātor (“blower”), from flō, flāre (“to blow, puff”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to blow”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to make a loud noise”). Doublet of blow and bleat.

## Easily confused with
- **flor** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/flavor-vs-flor)
- **floor** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/flavor-vs-floor)
- **flavour** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/flavor-vs-flavour)
- **flavored** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/flavor-vs-flavored)
- **favor** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/favor-vs-flavor)
- **flair** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/flair-vs-flavor)
- **favour** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/favour-vs-flavor)
- **favors** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/favors-vs-flavor)
- **fervor** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fervor-vs-flavor)
- **Flavia** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/flavia-vs-flavor)

## Common misspellings (9)
`falvor`, `fflavor`, `flaovr`, `flavorr`, `flavro`, `flavvor`, `fllavor`, `flvaor`, `lfavor`

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