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Synonyms

spell checker

American  

noun

spell checkers plural
  1. a computer program for checking the spelling of words in an electronic document.


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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 Tinsley, Jim

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