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stepcousin

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
step-cousin
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A nephew or niece of someone's stepparent; a child of someone's stepaunt or stepuncle (in the sense of a sibling of someone's stepparent).

noun

A stepchild of someone's aunt or uncle; a stepnephew or stepniece (in the sense of a stepchild of someone's sibling) of someone's parent.

noun

A child of someone's stepaunt or stepuncle (in the sense of a stepsibling of someone's parent); a stepnephew or stepniece (in the sense of a child of someone's stepsibling) of someone's parent.

Etymology

From step- + cousin.

Inflected Forms

stepcousins (plural) step-cousin (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

stepnephew stepniece

Questions

What does stepcousin mean?
A nephew or niece of someone's stepparent; a child of someone's stepaunt or stepuncle (in the sense of a sibling of someone's stepparent).
Where does stepcousin come from?
From step- + cousin.

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