grandnephew
noun
grandnephew is a noun meaning “A grandson of one's sibling; a son of one's nephew or niece. (Brother's grandson: fraternal grandnephew. Sister's grandson: sororal grandnephew.)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled G-R-A-N-D-N-E-P-H-E-W and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 23 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of grandnephew is grandnephews.
What does grandnephew mean?
noun
- 1
A grandson of one's sibling; a son of one's nephew or niece. (Brother's grandson: fraternal grandnephew. Sister's grandson: sororal grandnephew.)
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce grandnephew?
- US
Grandnephew has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-grandnephew.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of grandnephew
- grandnephews plural
- grand-nephew
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is grandnephew?
Grandnephew appears about once in every 23 million words in written English, the 146,811th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Grandnephew in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense grandson of a sibling:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | petit-neveu, petit-neveu fraternel, petit-neveu sororel |
| German | Großneffe |
| Portuguese | sobrinho-neto |
| Spanish | resobrino, sobrino nieto |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does grandnephew come from?
From grand- + nephew.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).