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Word entry · 4 letters

mice

Best crossword clue

"Small rodents"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /maɪs/Sorted ceimStarts with MEnds with E1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. Small rodents, or plural of computer mouse.

Word origin

From Middle English mys, mice, muis, mise, mis, from Old English mȳs (“mice”), from an umlauted form of Proto-Germanic *mūsiz (“mice”), nominative and vocative plural of Proto-Germanic *mūs (“mouse”). Compare Scots mice, mise, myse, myce (“mice”), West Frisian mûzen (“mice”), Dutch muizen (“mice”), German Mäuse (“mice”), Swedish möss (“mice”), Faroese mýs (“mice”), Icelandic mýs (“mice”). More at mouse.

Used in a sentence

  • That cat's mysin, he doesn't see the dog coming.

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