Spelling
Recieving or receiving?
Receiving is the right spelling. Recieving is a common misspelling of it.
RECIEVING has IE where RECEIVING has EI.
Why people write RECIEVING
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-ving.
How often RECEIVING is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), RECIEVING appears 11 times for every 1,000 RECEIVING, about once for every 91 correct uses.
Is RECIEVING a word?
No. RECIEVING is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. RECEIVING is in all three and scores 15 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What receiving means
To come into possession of.
More words with the same mistake
I before E, or E before I:
More spelling help
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