How to spell grandmother

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What it means: The mother of your father or mother.

In a sentence: My grandmother makes the best cookies.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as grandmoter or grandmather.

Same family: grandma, grandpa, grandparents, grandchild, grandfather. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The word "grandmother" combines "grand," which once meant "of a larger or more important family relationship," with "mother." English began adding "grand" in front of family words like father, mother, son, and daughter in the 15th–16th centuries to show an extra generation.

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