Exceptions to I before E except After C are numerous. I've always wondered why we used the word when there are so many exceptions. Didn't know we had over 500 exceptions.

 

As shown below.

 

1. acrolein
2. apodeictic
3. atheism
4. atheist
5. atheistic
6. atheistical
7. atheistically
8. aweigh
9. beige
10. being
11. Berkeleian
12. Berkeleianism
13. bioscience
14. casein
15. caseinate
16. Cecheid
17. checkrein
18. chow mein
19. Chryseis
20. cleidoic
21. cleistogamic
22. cleistogamous
23. cleistogamously
24. cleistogamy
25. clupeid
26. clypei
27. codeine
28. co-efficient
29. coheir
30. coheiress
31. concierge
32. conscience
33. conscientious
34. conscientiousness
35. counterfeit
36. counterfeiter
37. counterscientific
38. countersurveillance
39. counterweight
40. coup d'oeil
41. coups d'oeil
42. cruzeiro
43. cueing
44. cuneiform
45. cysteine
46. deice
47. deicide
48. deietic
49. deification
50. deify
51. deign
52. deil
53. deinstitutionalization
54. deinstitutionalize
55. deionization
56. deionize
57. deism
58. deist
59. deistic
60. deistical
61. deistically
62. deity
63. disseise
64. disseised
65. disseising
66. disseisin
67. disseize
68. disseized
69. disseizing
70. disseizin
71. dreich
72. dreidel
73. dreidl
74. dyeing
75. edelweiss
76. efficiency
77. efficient
78. efficiently
79. eider
80. eiderdown
81. eidetic
82. eidetically
83. eidolon
84. eigenvalue
85. eigenvector
86. eight
87. eighteen
88. eightfold
89. eighth
90. eightpenny
91. eighty
92. einkorn
93. einsteinium
94. eirenic
95. eisegsis
96. eisteddfod
97. eisteddfodic
98. either
99. -facient
100. facies
101. feign
102. feigned
103. feigner
104. feignt
105. feirie
106. feist
107. feisty
108. feistier
109. feistiest
110. feistiness
111. flavoprotein
112. fleishig
113. flyweight
114. foreign
115. foreignness
116. foreigner
117. foreignism
118. forfeit
119. forfeitable
120. forfeiter
121. forfeiture
122. fraulein
123. freight
124. freightage
125. freighter
126. gallein
127. geisha
128. geishas
129. geoscience
130. gleization
131. greige
132. greisen
133. habeas corpus ad subjiciendum
134. heifer
135. heiho
136. height
137. heighten
138. heightened
139. heightening
140. heine
141. heinous
142. heinously
143. heinousness
144. heir
145. heirless
146. heirship
147. heiress
148. heirloom
149. heist
150. heterogeneity
151. hexerei
152. hundredweight
153. hundredweights
154. hyperconscientious
155. hyperconscientiousness
156. ileitis
157. insufficience
158. insufficiencies
159. insufficiency
160. insufficient
161. insufficiently
162. intersocietal
163. intersociety
164. inveigh
165. inveigher
166. inveigle
167. inveigled
168. inveiglement
169. inveigler
170. inveigling
171. isoseismal
172. jadeite
173. kapellmeister
174. Klein bottle
175. kyrie eleison
176. langbeinite
177. lei
178. leishmania
179. leishmanial
180. leishmaniasis
181. leister
182. leisure
183. leisured
184. leisurely
185. leisureliness
186. leitmotiv
187. leitmotif
188. Lorelei
189. lutein
190. luteinization
191. luteinize
192. lwei
193. lweis
194. Madeira
195. madeleine
196. Meiji
197. meikle
198. meiny
199. meinies
200. meiosis
201. meiotic
202. meiotically
203. Meissen
204. Meistersinger
205. Meistersingers
206. meiamine
207. milreis
208. monotheism
209. monotheist
210. monotheistic
211. monotheistical
212. monotheistically
213. monseigneur
214. monseigneurs
215. monteith
216. mullein
217. neigh
218. neighbor
219. neighbored
220. neighboring
221. neighborhood
222. neighborly
223. neighborliness
224. neighbour
225. neither
226. nescience
227. nescient
228. neuroscience
229. neuroscientist
230. nisei
231. nonrareil
232. nonprotein
233. nonscience
234. nontheist
235. nontheistic
236. oei-de-boeuf
237. oeilade
238. oleic
239. olein
240. omniscience
241. omniscient
242. omnisciently
243. Oneida
244. Oneidas
245. oneiric
246. oneirically
247. oneiromancy
248. outweigh
249. overconscientious
250. overconscious
251. overweigh
252. overweight
253. pantheism
254. pantheist
255. pantheistic
256. pantheistical
257. psntheisically
258. paperweight
259. parallel-veined
260. oneiromancy
261. peignoir
262. pein
263. pennyweight
264. phenolphtatein
265. plebeian
266. pleiad
267. Pleiad
268. Pleiades
269. plein air
270. pleinairism
271. pleinairist
272. pleio-
273. pleiotropic
274. pleiotropy
275. Pleistocene
276. poleis
277. Poseidon
278. preignition
279. preimplantation
280. preinaugural
281. preincorporation
282. preinduction
283. preindustrial
284. preinterview
285. preinvasion
286. premeiotic
287. prescience
288. prescient
289. presciently
290. prescientific
291. proficiency
292. proficient
293. proficiently
294. protein
295. proteinaceous
296. proteinase
297. proteinurea
298. pseudoscience
299. pseudoscientific
300. pseudoscientist
301. reichsmark
302. reidentify
303. reification
304. reified
305. reify
306. reifying
307. reign
308. reignite
309. reimage
310. reimagine
311. reimburse
312. reimbursed
313. reimbursing
314. reimbursable
315. reimpursement
316. reimpression
317. reimmerse
318. reimplantation
319. reimport
320. reimportation
321. reimpose
322. reimposition
323. rein
324. reincarnate
325. reinarnation
326. reincorporate
327. reincorporation
328. reindeer
329. reindict
330. reiindictment
331. reindustrialization
332. reindustrialize
333. reinfestation
334. reinfection
335. reinforce
336. reinforceable
337. reinforced
338. reinforcement
339. reinforcer
340. reinhabit
341. reinitiate
342. reinject
343. reinjection
344. reinjure
345. reinjury
346. reink
347. reinnervate
348. reiinnervation
349. reinoculate
350. reinoculation
351. reinsert
352. reinsertion
353. reinspect
354. reinspection
355. reinstall
356. reinstallation
357. reinstitutionalization
358. reinter
359. reinterview
360. reintroduce
361. reintroduction
362. reinvade
363. reinvasion
364. reinvestigate
365. reinvigorate
366. reinvigoration
367. reinvigorator
368. reveile
369. reweigh
370. rottweiler
371. rubefacient
372. reins
373. reinsman
374. reinstate
375. reinstated
376. reinstating
377. reinstetement
378. reinsurance
379. reinsure
380. reinsurer
381. reintegrate
382. reintrgration
383. reintegrative
384. reinterpret
385. reinterpretation
386. reinvent
387. reinvention
388. reinvest
389. reinvestment
390. reis
391. reissue
392. reiterate
393. reiterated
394. reiterating
395. reive
396. sansei
397. science
398. sciential
399. scientific
400. scientism
401. scientist
402. scientize
403. sclereid
404. scleroprotein
405. sei
406. seicento
407. seiche
408. seidel
409. seigneur
410. seigneurial
411. seigneury
412. seigneuries
413. seignior
414. seigniorage
415. seignorage
416. seigniory
417. seignory
418. seigniories
419. seignories
420. seignorial
421. seine
422. seisin
423. seismic
424. seismicity
425. seismogram
426. seismograph
427. seismographer
428. seismographic
429. seismography
430. seismology
431. seismological
432. seismologist
433. seismometer
434. seismometry
435. seize
436. seized
437. seizing
438. seizer
439. seizure
440. semideify
441. sheikh
442. sheik
443. sheikhdom
444. sheikdom
445. skeigh
446. skein
447. sleigh
448. sleight
449. societal
450. societally
451. societies
452. society
453. sovereign
454. sovereignly
455. sovereignty
456. speiss
457. spontaneity
458. stein
459. subseizure
460. subscience
461. sufficiency
462. sufficient
463. sufficiently
464. superefficiency
465. superefficient
466. surfeit
467. surveil
468. surveillance
469. surveillant
470. surveilled
471. surveilling
472. teiid
473. terreplein
474. their
475. theirs
476. theism
477. theist
478. theistic
479. theistical
480. theistically
481. tholeiite
482. theleiitic
483. tie-dyeing
484. tracheid
485. tracheitis
486. ultralightweight
487. underweigh
488. underweight
489. unfeigned
490. unfeignedly
491. unscientific
492. unscientifically
493. unveil
494. unveiled
495. veil
496. veiled
497. veiling
498. vein
499. veined
500. veiner
501. veining
502. veinlet
503. veiny
504. velleity
505. vermeil
506. vicereine
507. villein
508. weigela
509. weigh
510. weighable
511. weigher
512. weigh-in
513. weight
514. weighted
515. weightless
516. weighty
517. weimaraner
518. weiner
519. weir
520. weird
521. weirdly
522. weirdness
523. weirdie
524. weirdy
525. weirdies
526. weirdo
527. weisenheimer
528. wherein
529. whereinto
530. wisenheimer
531. zein
532. zeitgeber
533. zeitgeist

Now I come to think of it, that's pretty crazy. I wouldn't have thought there were over 500 though!

Holy shit. Thats alot of exceptions 

engrish gotta love it

Time to give my 3rd grade teacher a good whipping

OMG all this time....

lol dafuq crazy xD

that's a daily wow.

never realized it was that much :0

twats, I say we brick em.

"i before e except after c and when the sound is ay as in neighbor and weigh and when cie makes a 'she/sheh' sound".
 

Also, its a rule of thumb, not a law.  Was made to help kids in like 5th grade...

Holy o.O didn't think there was that many!

It sucks to be a teacher now with these damn budget cuts