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How to spell cousin

What it means: The child of your aunt or uncle.

In a sentence: My cousin and I like to play games together. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as cousen or cosin.

Same family: relative, family, sibling, aunt, uncle. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Cousin” comes from Old French *cosin*, which originally meant any kind of relative, not just the child of an aunt or uncle. In some older English texts, people even used “cousin” as a polite way to address distant relatives or nobles.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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