'i' before 'e' except after 'c' - exceptions (a partial list)
This is a partial list - email me at dennis.darland@yahoo.com, if you know any more exceptions. I am now going slowly through a dictionary.
I realized this had probably been done befoe, so rather than completing my trip through the dictionary I searched the web
finding:
i befor e (1)
i before e (Wikipedia)
i before e (3)
i before e (4)
I have resumed going through the dictionary (now through the a's
- acrolein
- apodeictic
- atheism
- atheist
- atheistic
- atheistical
- atheistically
- aweigh
- beige
- being
- deice
- deicide
- deietic
- deification
- deify
- deign
- deil
- deinstitutionalization
- deinstitutionalize
- deionization
- deionize
- deism
- deist
deistic
- deistical
- deistically
- deity
- eider
- eiderdown
- eidetic
- eidetically
- eidolon
- eigenvalue
- eigenvector
- eight
- eighteen
- eightfold
- eighth
- eightpenny
- eighty
- einkorn
- einsteinium
- eirenic
- eisegsis
- eisteddfod
- eisteddfodic
- either
- feign
- feigned
- feigner
- feignt
- feirie
- feist
- feisty
- feistier
- feistiest
- feistiness
- foreign
- foreignness
- foreigner
- foreignism
- geisha
- geishas
- heifer
- heiho
- height
- heighten
- heightened
- heightening
- heine
- heinous
- heinously
- heinousness
- heir
- heirless
- heirship
- heiress
- heirloom
- heist
- lei
- leishmania
- leishmanial
- leishmaniasis
- leister
- leisure
- leisured
- leisurely
- leisureliness
- leitmotiv
- leitmotif
- meikle
- meiny
- meinies
- meiosis
- meiamine
- neigh
- neighbor
- neighbored
- neighboring
- neighborhood
- neighborly
- neighbour
- neither
- oneiromancy
- peignoir
- pein
- reichsmark
- reification
- reify
- reign
- reimburse
- rein
- reincarnate
- reinarnation
- reindeer
- reinfection
- reinforce
- reinforceable
- reinforced
- reinforcement
- reinforcer
- reins
- reinsman
- reinstate
- reinstated
- reinstating
- reinstetement
- reinsurance
- reinsure
- reinsurer
- reintegrate
- reintrgration
- reintegrative
- reinterpret
- reinterpretation
- reinvent
- reinvention
- reinvest
- reinvestment
- reis
- reissue
- reiterate
- reiterated
- reiterating
- reive
- sei
- seicento
- seiche
- seidel
- seigneur
- seigneurial
- seigneury
- seigneuries
- seignior
- seigniorage
- seignorage
- seigniory
- seignory
- seigniories
- seignories
- seignorial
- seine
- seisin
- seismic
- seismicity
- seismogram
- seismograph
- seismographer
- seismographic
- seismography
- seismology
- seismological
- seismologist
- seismometer
- seismometry
- seize
- seized
- seizing
- seizer
- seizure
- society
- teiid
- their
- theirs
- theism
- theist
- theistic
- theistical
- theistically
- veil
- veiled
- veiling
- vein
- veined
- veiner
- veining
- veinlet
- veiny
- weigela
- weigh
- weighable
- weigher
- weigh-in
- weight
- weighted
- weightless
- weighty
- weimaraner
- weiner
- weir
- weird
- weirdly
- weirdness
- weirdie
- weirdy
- weirdies
- weirdo
- weisenheimer
- zein
- zeitgeber
- zeitgeist