What words have a short e sound but are spelled with ie like in friend?

Answer 1

The only instance of the IE in a common word is friend.

However, there are some EI words that have a short E sound, including

"heifer" (sounds like "heffer) and at least one pronunciation of the French words nonpareil, seiche, and pegnoir.

The short E sound can also be represented by "EA" digraph as in these words:

abreast, abrest, ahead, airhead, already, bedstead, bread, breadth, breakfast, breast, breath, cleanliness, cleanse, dead, deadline, deadly, deaf, deafen, dealt, death, dread, dreadful, dreadnaught, dreamt, endeavor, farmstead, feather, head, header, heading, headline, headstart, health, healthy, heather, heaven, heavy, homestead, instead, jealous, jealousy, lead(the metal), leady, leapt, leather, leaven, meadow, meant, measure, peasant, pheasant, pleasant, pleasure, read(past tense and past participle of "read"), ready, realm, spread, stead, steady, steadfast, stealth, sweat, sweater, thread, threat, threaten, treachery, tread, treadle, treadmill, treasure, unhealthy, unleaded, unsteady, wealth, wealthy, weapon, weather, zealot, zealotry, zealous.