spell checker
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of spell checker
First recorded in 1980–85
Example Sentences
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His parodies of advertisements included such future real-life products as automatic redialing for a telephone, a computer spell checker and graffiti-proof surfaces.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 10, 2023
This makes it possible to sandbox critical browser subcomponents like its spell checker, effectively allowing it to treat them as untrusted code while still running in the same process.
From The Verge • Dec. 6, 2021
“We are trying to use technology as a spell checker to physically reverse the misspelling of a human chromosome.”
From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2014
The name comes from an early spell checker program, which knew the word Cupertino - the Californian city where Apple has its headquarters - but not the word "cooperation".
From The Guardian • Apr. 17, 2013
Word has a pretty good spell checker and the custom dictionaries are easy to muck around with.
From The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002 by Tinsley, Jim
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