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How to spell niece

Niece is spelled N-I-E-C-E.

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.

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.

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