# flower

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈflaʊ.ə/ · frequency rank #3,493

## Definitions
1. A colorful, conspicuous structure associated with angiosperms, frequently scented and attracting various insects, and which may or may not be used for sexual reproduction.
2. A reproductive structure in angiosperms (flowering plants), often conspicuously colourful and typically including sepals, petals, and either or both stamens and/or a pistil.
3. A plant that bears flowers, especially a plant that is small and lacks wood.
4. The stem of a flowering plant with the blossom or blossoms attached, used for decoration, as a gift, etc.
5. Of plants, a state of bearing blooms.
6. The vulva, especially the labia majora.
7. The best examples or representatives of a group.
8. The best state of things; the prime.
9. Flour.
10. A substance in the form of a powder, especially when condensed from sublimation.
11. A figure of speech; an ornament of style.
12. Ornamental type used chiefly for borders around pages, cards, etc.
13. Menstrual discharges.
14. A delicate, fragile, or oversensitive person.
15. Credit, recognition.
16. Cannabis.

## Etymology
From Middle English flour, from Anglo-Norman flur, from Latin flōrem, accusative of flōs, from Proto-Italic *flōs, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“to thrive, bloom”). Doublet of fleur, flor, flour, bloom, and blossom.
Partly displaced native Old English blostma (which is cognate), whence Modern English blossom.

## Easily confused with
- **flows** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/flower-vs-flows)
- **flown** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/flower-vs-flown)
- **flyer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/flower-vs-flyer)
- **foyer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/flower-vs-foyer)
- **fowler** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/flower-vs-fowler)
- **footer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/flower-vs-footer)
- **flowers** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/flower-vs-flowers)
- **flowery** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/flower-vs-flowery)
- **flyover** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/flower-vs-flyover)
- **follower** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/flower-vs-follower)
- **flowered** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/flower-vs-flowered)
- **flow** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/flow-vs-flower)
- **flor** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/flor-vs-flower)
- **floor** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/floor-vs-flower)
- **fewer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fewer-vs-flower)
- **flour** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/flour-vs-flower)
- **flier** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/flier-vs-flower)
- **flawed** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/flawed-vs-flower)
- **flowed** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/flowed-vs-flower)
- **Flores** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/flores-vs-flower)

## Common misspellings (9)
`fflower`, `fllower`, `floewr`, `flowerr`, `flowre`, `flowwer`, `flwoer`, `folwer`, `lfower`

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