If you want to give your readers a good impression in your English writing, you should avoid misspelling. Misspelling makes the writer looked stupid and unprofessional. It is important to spell English words correctly.



One of the most important spelling rules to help you to learn the correct way to spell English word is: [i] before [e] except after [c].



[i] Before [e] Spelling Rule



Believe beleive

Hierarchy heirarchy

Mischievous mischeivous

Achieve acheive

[i] before [e] except after [c] Spelling Rule

Receive recieve

Perceive percieve

Conceive concieve

Deceive decieve

nieghbour

wiegh

thier

hier

liesure

wierd

foriegn

You should remember that [i] usually comes before [e] except after [c] or when it is pronounced like "a" as "neighbour"and "weigh"or "e" as in "their"and "heir". Other exceptions include “leisure”, “weird”and “foreign”