i before e

There are a total of 5223 words in the English language that contain a combination of either ei or ie.

3885 of these words contain the letters ie

1338 of these words contain the letters ei

1231of these words violate the rule of i before e except after c

Here is a partial list of these i before e words (word that contain cie):

 

1 ) Abbacies
2 ) Abortifacient
3 ) abortifacient
4 ) absorbefacient
5 ) Acierage
6 ) Agencies
7 ) Alliciency
8 ) Allicient
9 ) Ancient
10 ) Anciently
11 ) Ancientness
12 ) Ancientry
13 ) Ancienty
14 ) -ancies
15 ) Appetencies
16 ) Aristocracies
17 ) Autocracies
18 ) Bankruptcies
19 ) Beneficient
20 ) Brevetcies
21 ) Buoyancies
22 ) Calefacient
23 ) Calorifacient
24 ) Calorificient
25 ) Cierge
26 ) -cies
27 ) Clarencieux
28 ) Clemencies
29 ) Coefficiency
30 ) Coefficient
31 ) Coefficiently
32 ) Concierge
33 ) Conciergerie
34 ) Confederacies
35 ) Conscience
36 ) Conscienced
37 ) Conscienceless
38 ) Conscient
39 ) Conscientious
40 ) Conscientiously
41 ) Conscientiousness
42 ) Conspiracies
43 ) Constituencies
44 ) Contingencies
45 ) Contumacies
46 ) Correspondencies
47 ) Curacies
48 ) Currencies
49 ) Decencies
50 ) Deficience
51 ) Deficiencies
52 ) Deficiency
53 ) Deficient
54 ) Deficient-ly
55 ) Delicacies
56 ) Delinquencies
57 ) Delirifacient
58 ) Democracies
59 ) Dependencies
60 ) Despiciency
61 ) Effeminacies
62 ) efficience
63 ) efficiency
64 ) efficient
65 ) Efficient
66 ) Efficiently
67 ) Emergencies
68 ) Ensigncies
69 ) Excellencies
70 ) Exigencies
71 ) Extravagancies
72 ) faciend
73 ) Faciend
74 ) facient
75 ) Facient
76 ) Facies
77 ) Fallacies
78 ) Fancied
79 ) Fancier
80 ) Fancies
81 ) Febrifacient
82 ) Financier
83 ) Financiered
84 ) Financiering
85 ) Flagrancies
86 ) Frequencies
87 ) Glacier
88 ) Hacienda
89 ) Icier
90 ) Iciest
91 ) Illiteracies
92 ) Improficience
93 ) Improficiency
94 ) Inaccuracies
95 ) Inclemencies
96 ) Inconsistencies
97 ) Incumbencies
98 ) Indecencies
99 ) Indeficiency
100 ) Indeficient
101 ) Indelicacies
102 ) Inefficiency
103 ) Inefficient
104 ) Inefficiently
105 ) Inelegancies
106 ) Inscience
107 ) Inscient
108 ) Insolvencies
109 ) Insufficience
110 ) Insufficiency
111 ) Insufficient
112 ) Insufficiently
113 ) Intendancies
114 ) Internunciess
115 ) Intimacies
116 ) Intricacies
117 ) Juicier
118 ) Juiciest
119 ) lanciers
120 ) Legacies
121 ) Liquefacient
122 ) Lunacies
123 ) Magistracies
124 ) Maleficience
125 ) Maleficient
126 ) Mercies
127 ) Nescience
128 ) Nigromancie
129 ) Nigromancien
130 ) Nonproficiency
131 ) nonproficient
132 ) Nonproficient
133 ) Objicient
134 ) Omniscience
135 ) Omnisciency
136 ) Omniscient
137 ) Omnisciently
138 ) Parturifacient
139 ) Perficient
140 ) Perspicience
141 ) pichyciego
142 ) Piracies
143 ) Policied
144 ) Policies
145 ) Pr'ecieuse
146 ) Prelacies
147 ) Prescience
148 ) Prescient
149 ) Presciently
150 ) Presidencies
151 ) Privacies
152 ) Procuracies
153 ) Proficience
154 ) Proficiency
155 ) Proficient
156 ) Proficiently
157 ) Prophecies
158 ) Prospicience
159 ) Racier
160 ) Raciest
161 ) Regencies
162 ) Remercie
163 ) Rubefacient
164 ) Saciety
165 ) Saucier
166 ) Sauciest
167 ) Science
168 ) Scient
169 ) Scienter
170 ) Sciential
171 ) Scientific
172 ) Scientifical
173 ) Scientifically
174 ) Scientist
175 ) scientist
176 ) Secrecies
177 ) Self-sufficiency
178 ) Self-sufficient
179 ) Sensifacient
180 ) Sergeancies
181 ) Societarian
182 ) Societary
183 ) Societies
184 ) Society
185 ) Sorbefacient
186 ) Specie
187 ) Species
188 ) Spicier
189 ) Spiciest
190 ) Stupefacient
191 ) stupifacient
192 ) Subspecies
193 ) Sufficience
194 ) Sufficiency
195 ) Sufficient
196 ) Sufficiently
197 ) Superficies
198 ) Suspiciency
199 ) Tenacies
200 ) Tendencies
201 ) Transparencies
202 ) Tumefacient
203 ) Unmercied
204 ) Unpolicied
205 ) Unproficiency
206 ) Unscience
207 ) Unscientific
208 ) Unsufficience
209 ) Unsufficiency
210 ) Unsufficient
211 ) Vacancies
212 ) Valencies

So approximately 25% of the time the rule will always be violated. Luckily there was a book written i before e except after c book, by Judy Parkinson to help us combat this gross inconsistency and also help us remember other English spelling rules to avoid embarrassment.

 

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