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How to spell queen

What it means: A female sovereign ruler.

In a sentence: The queen wore a shiny crown. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for double e. Often misspelled as quean or qeen.

Same family: queens, queenly, queendom, king, monarch. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Queen comes from Old English 'cwēn', meaning 'woman' or 'wife' and later 'female ruler.' It is related to words in other Germanic languages, like German 'Königin' and Dutch 'koningin,' which also refer to a female monarch.

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