Spelling
Recievers or receivers?
Receivers is the right spelling. Recievers is a common misspelling of it.
RECIEVERS has IE where RECEIVERS has EI.
Why people write RECIEVERS
IE and EI sound alike in many words, so the order has to be remembered rather than heard.
The rhyme helps for most words: I before E, except after C (receive, ceiling), or when it says A as in neighbor and weigh. Learn the exceptions as a set: weird, their, seize, either, neither, foreign, height.
How often RECEIVERS is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), RECIEVERS appears 38 times for every 1,000 RECEIVERS, about once for every 26 correct uses.
Is RECIEVERS a word?
No. RECIEVERS is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. RECEIVERS is in all three and scores 14 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What receivers means
One that receives.
More words with the same mistake
I before E, or E before I:
More spelling help
Commonly misspelled words, grouped by the mistake · Free printables and word games for teachers · Unscramble any letters