English Spelling --- -IE or -EI


Rule:

Write I before E

Except after C

Or when it sounds like an A

As in "neighbor" and "weigh"

Examples: -i before -e:
  1. diesel
  2. relief
  3. believe
  4. niece
  5. chief
  6. sieve
  7. frieze
  8. field
  9. yield
Examples: -e before -i:
  1. receive
  2. deceive
  3. ceiling
  4. conceit
  5. vein
  6. sleigh
  7. freight
  8. eight
Exceptions:
  1. counterfeit
  2. conscience
  3. either
  4. foreign
  5. forfeit
  6. height
  7. leisure
  8. neither
  9. protein
  10. science
  11. seize
  12. species
  13. sufficient
  14. weird

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