A basic spell checker carries out the following processes:
• It scans the text and extracts the words … See more

In 1961, Les Earnest, who headed the research on this budding technology, saw it necessary to include the first spell checker that accessed a list of 10,000 acceptable words. Ralph Gorin, a graduate student under Earn… See more

The first spell checkers were "verifiers" instead of "correctors." They offered no suggestions for incorrectly spelled words. This was helpful for typos but it was not so helpful for logical or phonetic errors. The challenge t… See more

English is unusual in that most words used in formal writing have a single spelling that can be found in a typical dictionary, with the exception of some jargon and modified words. In many languages, words are often concatenated into … See more

There has been research on developing algorithms that are capable of recognizing a misspelled word, even if the word itself is in the vocabulary, based on the context of the surrounding words. Not only does this allow words suc… See more

• Cupertino effect
• Grammar checker
• Record linkage problem
• Spelling suggestion… See more

• List of spell checkers at Curlie
• Norvig.com, "How to Write a Spelling Corrector", by Peter Norvig
• BBK.ac.uk, "Spellchecking by computer", by Roger Mitton… See more