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Definition: Cornflour |
CornflourNoun1. Starch prepared from the grains of corn; used in cooking as a thickener. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | Starch made from corn and used in foods as a thickening agent, in making corn syrup and sugars, and in the manufacture of adhesives and sizes for papers and textiles. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: CornflourSynonym: cornstarch (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Cornflour" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 76.47% of the time. "Cornflour" is used about 34 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 76.47% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 23.53% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 34 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cornflour | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "cornflour"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | kukuřièný škrob (cornstarch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | majsstivelse (corn starch, corn starch US, cornstarch, maize starch, maize starch GB). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | maisstijfsel (corn starch, corn starch US, cornstarch, maize starch, maize starch GB). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | maissitärkkelys (corn starch, corn starch US, cornstarch, maize starch, maize starch GB). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | corn flour (corn starch, corn starch US, cornstarch), maïzena (corn starch, corn starch US, cornstarch), amidon de maïs (corn starch, corn starch US, cornstarch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | stärkemehl (cornstarch, starch flour, thickening agent), Maisstaerke (corn starch, corn starch US, cornstarch, maize starch, maize starch GB), Maisstärke (cornstarch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καλαμποκάλευρο, σιτάλευρο. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kukoricaliszt (corn-flour). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | amido di mais (cornstarch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | grine-flooyr. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ornflourcay amido de milho (corn starch). (various references) maicena (cornstarch), harina de maíz (cornmeal), almidon de maiz (corn starch, corn starch US, cornstarch, maize starch, maize starch GB), almidón de maíz (corn starch, cornstarch, maize starch). (various references) majsstärkelse (corn starch, corn starch US, cornstarch, maize starch, maize starch GB). (various references) mısır unu (Farina). (various references) кукурудзяне борошно (corn meal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-f-l-n-o-o-r-r-u" | |
-2 letters: forlorn. | |
-3 letters: colour, uncool, unroof. | |
-4 letters: clour, colon, color, cornu, croon, cruor, floor, flour, fluor, furor. | |
-5 letters: clon, coof, cool, coon, corf, corn, curf, curl, curn, curr, floc, fool, foul, four, furl, loco, loof, loon, lorn, lour, nolo, nurl, rolf, roof, unco. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-f-l-n-o-o-r-r-u" | |
+3 letters: fluorocarbon. | |
+4 letters: fluorocarbons. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Bibliography |
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