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How to spell niece

What it means: The daughter of your sibling.

In a sentence: My niece loves to draw pictures with crayons. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for the order of ie. Often misspelled as neice or nees.

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

Where it comes from: Niece comes from Old French “niece,” from Latin “neptis,” meaning ‘granddaughter’ or ‘female descendant.’ It is related to the word nephew, which also comes from the same Latin root.

Patterns it uses: i before e?

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