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How to spell mice

Mice is spelled M-I-C-E.

hear it/maɪs/nounLong vowels

What it means: Small rodents often found in homes.

In a sentence: Three tiny mice scurried across the floor.

Same family: mouse, mousy, rodent, rat, vermin. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Mice is the irregular plural of mouse, coming from Old English 'mūs' (singular) and 'mȳs' (plural). The vowel change from mouse to mice is a very old pattern in English, like tooth/teeth and foot/feet.

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