Spelling
Reciever or receiver?
Receiver is the right spelling. Reciever is a common misspelling of it.
RECIEVER has IE where RECEIVER has EI.
Why people write RECIEVER
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-ver.
How often RECEIVER is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), RECIEVER appears 23 times for every 1,000 RECEIVER, about once for every 43 correct uses.
Is RECIEVER a word?
No. RECIEVER is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. RECEIVER is in all three and scores 13 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What receiver means
One that receives.
More words with the same mistake
I before E, or E before I:
More spelling help
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