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Cauliflour or cauliflower?

Did you mean cauliflower? Here's the right spelling and how to remember it.

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cauliflour

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Correct spelling: cauliflower. Misspelling: cauliflour.

letters the misspelling gets wrong or leaves out letters that shouldn't be there

Memory tip

Cauli + flower: there's a U after the A, and it ends in flower, not flour.

Why people write “cauliflour”

“cauliflour” differs from “cauliflower” in 2 places: it leaves out the W; and it writes U where cauliflower has E, an easy slip because in an unstressed syllable both vowels can sound like the same soft "uh".

Spell-checkers catch the mistake in a document, but not in a handwritten note, a text message or a word game. Writing the word out a few times while saying the tricky part aloud is the quickest way to make cauliflower automatic.

What does “cauliflower” mean?

cauliflower noun

  1. a plant having a large edible head of crowded white flower buds

    Synonyms:

  2. compact head of white undeveloped flowers

Definitions from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Full dictionary entry

“Cauliflower” in a sentence

  • Roast the cauliflower with garlic.

Is “cauliflower” a playable word?

c 3a 1u 1l 1i 1f 4l 1o 1w 4e 1r 1

19 points in Scrabble · 23 in Words With Friends

  • Scrabble (US)
  • Scrabble (UK)
  • Words With Friends

“cauliflour” is not accepted in any of these games. See every word you can make from CAULIFLOWER.

Cauliflower: quick answers

Is it cauliflour or cauliflower?
The correct spelling is cauliflower. “cauliflour” is a misspelling: it does not appear in standard dictionaries or in the Scrabble and Words With Friends word lists.
How can I remember how to spell cauliflower?
Cauli + flower: there's a U after the A, and it ends in flower, not flour.
What does cauliflower mean?
Cauliflower means: a plant having a large edible head of crowded white flower buds.