grandniece
noun
grandniece is a noun meaning “A granddaughter of one's sibling; a daughter of one's nephew or niece. (Brother's granddaughter: fraternal grandniece. Sister's granddaughter…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled G-R-A-N-D-N-I-E-C-E, and it appears about once in every 28 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of grandniece is grandnieces.
What does grandniece mean?
noun
- 1
A granddaughter of one's sibling; a daughter of one's nephew or niece. (Brother's granddaughter: fraternal grandniece. Sister's granddaughter: sororal grandniece.)
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of grandniece
- grandnieces plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is grandniece?
Grandniece appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 159,707th 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).
Grandniece in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense granddaughter of a sibling:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | petite-nièce |
| German | Großnichte |
| Portuguese | sobrinha-neta |
| Spanish | sobrina nieta |
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 grandniece come from?
From grand- + niece.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).