spell checker
Americannoun
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spell checkers
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of spell checker
First recorded in 1980–85
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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
As of today’s release, Firefox is isolating five modules: its Graphite font rendering engine, Hunspell spell checker, Ogg multimedia container format, Expat XML parser, and Woff2 web font compression format.
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
A: This has been going on for eight years and he has a spell checker?
From Slate ● Feb. 27, 2012
Word has a pretty good spell checker and the custom dictionaries are easy to muck around with.
From The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002 by Jim Tinsley
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