Spelling
Beleive or believe?
Believe is the right spelling. Beleive is a common misspelling of it.
BELEIVE has EI where BELIEVE has IE.
Why people write BELEIVE
IE and EI sound alike in many words, so the order has to be remembered rather than heard.
Never beLIEve a LIE.
How often BELIEVE is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), BELEIVE appears 7 times for every 1,000 BELIEVE, about once for every 143 correct uses.
Is BELEIVE a word?
No. BELEIVE is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. BELIEVE is in all three and scores 12 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What believe means
verb: To accept as true or real.
For example: "I believed his report"
More words with the same mistake
I before E, or E before I:
More spelling help
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