Spelling
Recieved or received?
Received is the right spelling. Recieved is a common misspelling of it.
RECIEVED has IE where RECEIVED has EI.
Why people write RECIEVED
IE and EI sound alike in many words, so the order has to be remembered rather than heard.
I before E, except after C: rec-EI-ved.
How often RECEIVED is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), RECIEVED appears 15 times for every 1,000 RECEIVED, about once for every 67 correct uses.
Is RECIEVED a word?
No. RECIEVED is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. RECEIVED is in all three and scores 14 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What received means
verb: To come into possession of.
For example: "receive payment"
More words with the same mistake
I before E, or E before I:
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