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Cornflour

Definition: Cornflour

Cornflour

Noun

1. 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.
 


Specialty Definition: Cornflour

DomainDefinition

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.

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Synonym: Cornflour

Synonym: cornstarch (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Cornflour

DomainTitle

Books

  • An Allergy Cookbook: Recipes Free from Eggs, Milk, Cheese, Butter, Wheat Flour, Chocolate, Salt, Sugar, Baking Powder and Cornflour (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Usage Frequency: Cornflour

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)76.47%2668,323
Lexical Verb (base form)23.53%8124,375
                    Total100.00%34N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Cornflour

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

cornflour

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Cornflour

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

   

Portuguese

  

amido de milho (corn starch). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

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)

   

Swedish

  

majsstärkelse (corn starch, corn starch US, cornstarch, maize starch, maize starch GB). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

mısır unu (Farina). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

кукурудзяне борошно (corn meal). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Cornflour

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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