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floury

/ˈflaʊəɹi/adjective

floury is an adjective meaning “Resembling flour” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-O-U-R-Y, and it appears about once in every 15 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does floury mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Resembling flour.

    These mashed potatoes have a floury texture.

  2. 2

    Covered in flour.

    The baker wiped his floury hands on his apron.

  3. 3

    High in starch; tending to break down easily when cooked.

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

How do you pronounce floury?

  • US /ˈflaʊəɹi/
  • US /ˈflaʊɹi/

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

Forms of floury

  • flourier comparative
  • flouriest superlative

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

How common is floury?

Floury appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 118,441st 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).

Words people confuse with floury

Sounds like: flowery (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

Floury in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchfarineux (resembling flour)
Germanmehlig (resembling flour), mehligkochend (of a potato, starchy)
Portuguesefarinhento (resembling flour)
Spanishharinoso (resembling flour)

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 floury come from?

From Middle English floury, equivalent to flour + -y. Piecewise doublet of flowery.

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