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spell checker

or spell·check·er (spĕl′chĕk′ər)
n.
An application within most word processing programs that checks for spelling errors in documents.

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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

spellchecker

(ˈspɛlˌtʃɛkə)
n
(Computer Science) computing a program that highlights any word in a word-processed document that is not recognized as being correctly spelt
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
Translations
kontrola pravopisu
stavekontrol
oikolukuohjelma
correcteur d’orthographe
provjera grešaka
スペルチェッカー
철자검사 프로그램
stavningskontroll
phần mềm kiểm tra lỗi chính tả

spellchecker

[ˈspelˌtʃekəʳ] Ncorrector m ortográfico
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

spellchecker

مُصَحِحُ الْتَهْجِئَة kontrola pravopisu stavekontrol Rechtschreibprüfung πρόγραμμα ελέγχου ορθογραφίας corrector ortográfico oikolukuohjelma correcteur d’orthographe provjera grešaka controllo ortografico スペルチェッカー 철자검사 프로그램 spellingchecker stavekontroll funkcja sprawdzania pisowni corretor ortográfico программа проверки орфографии stavningskontroll ซอฟต์แวร์ของคอมพิวเตอร์ที่ใช้สําหรับตรวจคําศัพท์ yazım denetimi phần mềm kiểm tra lỗi chính tả 拼写检查器
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She added: "Increasingly, we communicate via technology and spellcheckers don't recognise dialect.
" Ms Cole said Welsh spellcheckers and translators all helped to build co dence and make the process of contributing online in Welsh easier.
" Ms Cole said Welsh-language spellcheckers and translators all helped to build codence and make the process of contributing online in Welsh easier.
For others, standard spellcheckers and grammar checkers do not provide the depth required.
The Oxford University Press found that primary and secondary school kids were increasingly encouraged to look up complex words using dictionaries and electronic spellcheckers, the Telegraph reported.
When the ombudsman protested that even Outsiders are entitled to their opinions, his colleagues dismissively responded, "let them get their own newspaper!" And this made God angry, and He quoth, "up with this state of affairs I will not put," thereby setting on edge the remaining teeth of those few aged copy editors who hadn't set their spellcheckers on auto-correct.
GENERATIONS of young people are growing up in a world where they spll in SMS shrthnd and rely on spellcheckers to correct their mistakes.
Spellcheckers don't recognize names, so we have to be especially careful.
They use their phones to send text messages, which are devoid of punctuation; they have spellcheckers on their PCs which change English spelling to American; they were taught by teachers whose own grasp of the niceties of the English language was shaky; they are surrounded by signs which fail to distinguish between upper and lower case.
Within hours, people were trying the names of friends, colleagues and celebrities in their own spellcheckers.

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