Spelling
Wierd or weird?
Weird is the right spelling. Wierd is a common misspelling of it.
WIERD has IE where WEIRD has EI.
Why people write WIERD
IE and EI sound alike in many words, so the order has to be remembered rather than heard.
Weird is weird: it breaks the I-before-E rule. WE are weIRD.
How often WEIRD is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), WIERD appears 70 times for every 1,000 WEIRD, about once for every 14 correct uses.
Is WIERD a word?
No. WIERD is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. WEIRD is in all three and scores 9 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What weird means
Mysteriously strange.
More words with the same mistake
I before E, or E before I:
More spelling help
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