spell checker
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
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
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.