Spelling
Peice or piece?
Piece is the right spelling. Peice is a common misspelling of it.
PEICE has EI where PIECE has IE.
Why people write PEICE
IE and EI sound alike in many words, so the order has to be remembered rather than heard.
A PIEce of PIE.
How often PIECE is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), PEICE appears 7 times for every 1,000 PIECE, about once for every 143 correct uses.
Is PEICE a word?
No. PEICE is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. PIECE is in all three and scores 9 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What piece means
noun: A separate part of a whole.
For example: "an important piece of the evidence"
More words with the same mistake
I before E, or E before I:
More spelling help
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