A basic spell checker carries out the following processes:
• It scans the text and extracts the words contained in it.
• It then compares each word with a known list of correctly spelled words (i.e. a … See more

The first spell checkers were "verifiers" instead of "correctors." They offered no suggestions for incorrectly spelled words. This was helpful for typos but it was not so helpful for logical or … See more

There has been research on developing algorithms that are capable of recognizing a misspelled word, even if the word itself is in the vocabulary, based on the context of the surrounding … See more

• List of spell checkers at Curlie
• Norvig.com, "How to Write a Spelling Corrector", by Peter Norvig See more

Pre-PC
In 1961, Les Earnest, who headed the research on this budding technology, saw it necessary to … See more

English is unusual in that most words used in formal writing have a single spelling that can be found in a typical dictionary, with the exception of some jargon and modified words. In many … See more

• Cupertino effect
• Grammar checker
• Record linkage problem
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