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How to spell slice

hear itslice/slaɪs/nounSounds

What it means: A thin, flat piece cut from something larger.

In a sentence: Can you cut a slice of cake for me, please?

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as slic or slise.

Same family: sliced, slicing, slicer, piece, cut. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Slice” comes through Middle English from Old French “esclice,” meaning a splinter or fragment. It is related to the verb “to slit,” and originally referred to a thin piece cut from something larger.

Patterns it uses: Drop the e before a suffix?

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