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How to spell voice

hear itvoice/vɔɪs/nounLong vowels

What it means: The sound produced through the mouth when speaking or singing.

In a sentence: My voice sounds funny when I sing.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as voise or voce.

Same family: voiced, voiceless, vocal, vocalize, voiceover. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Voice” comes from Old French “vois” and Latin “vox,” both meaning ‘sound’ or ‘voice.’ It is related to words like “vocal” and “vocabulary,” which also trace back to the Latin root for ‘voice’ or ‘call.’

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