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Meaning of "spellcheck" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SPELLCHECK

spellcheck  [ˈspeltʃek] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SPELLCHECK

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Spellcheck is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb spellcheck in English.

WHAT DOES SPELLCHECK MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Spell checker

In computing, a spell checker is an application program that flags words in a document that may not be spelled correctly. Spell checkers may be stand-alone, capable of operating on a block of text, or as part of a larger application, such as a word processor, email client, electronic dictionary, or search engine. Eye have a spelling chequer, It came with my Pea Sea. It plane lee marks four my revue Miss Steaks I can knot sea. Eye strike the quays and type a whirred And weight four it two say Weather eye am write oar wrong It tells me straight a weigh. Eye ran this poem threw it, Your shore real glad two no. Its vary polished in its weigh. My chequer tolled me sew. A chequer is a bless thing, It freeze yew lodes of thyme. It helps me right all stiles of righting, And aides me when eye rime. Each frays come posed up on my screen Eye trussed too bee a joule. The chequer pours o'er every word Two cheque sum spelling rule. The original version of this poem was written by Jerrold H. Zar in 1992. An unsophisticated spell checker will find little or no fault with this poem because it checks words in isolation.

Definition of spellcheck in the English dictionary

The definition of spellcheck in the dictionary is if you spellcheck something you have written on a computer, you use a special program to check whether you have made any spelling mistakes.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO SPELLCHECK

PRESENT

Present
I spellcheck
you spellcheck
he/she/it spellchecks
we spellcheck
you spellcheck
they spellcheck
Present continuous
I am spellchecking
you are spellchecking
he/she/it is spellchecking
we are spellchecking
you are spellchecking
they are spellchecking
Present perfect
I have spellchecked
you have spellchecked
he/she/it has spellchecked
we have spellchecked
you have spellchecked
they have spellchecked
Present perfect continuous
I have been spellchecking
you have been spellchecking
he/she/it has been spellchecking
we have been spellchecking
you have been spellchecking
they have been spellchecking
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I spellchecked
you spellchecked
he/she/it spellchecked
we spellchecked
you spellchecked
they spellchecked
Past continuous
I was spellchecking
you were spellchecking
he/she/it was spellchecking
we were spellchecking
you were spellchecking
they were spellchecking
Past perfect
I had spellchecked
you had spellchecked
he/she/it had spellchecked
we had spellchecked
you had spellchecked
they had spellchecked
Past perfect continuous
I had been spellchecking
you had been spellchecking
he/she/it had been spellchecking
we had been spellchecking
you had been spellchecking
they had been spellchecking
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will spellcheck
you will spellcheck
he/she/it will spellcheck
we will spellcheck
you will spellcheck
they will spellcheck
Future continuous
I will be spellchecking
you will be spellchecking
he/she/it will be spellchecking
we will be spellchecking
you will be spellchecking
they will be spellchecking
Future perfect
I will have spellchecked
you will have spellchecked
he/she/it will have spellchecked
we will have spellchecked
you will have spellchecked
they will have spellchecked
Future perfect continuous
I will have been spellchecking
you will have been spellchecking
he/she/it will have been spellchecking
we will have been spellchecking
you will have been spellchecking
they will have been spellchecking
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would spellcheck
you would spellcheck
he/she/it would spellcheck
we would spellcheck
you would spellcheck
they would spellcheck
Conditional continuous
I would be spellchecking
you would be spellchecking
he/she/it would be spellchecking
we would be spellchecking
you would be spellchecking
they would be spellchecking
Conditional perfect
I would have spellcheck
you would have spellcheck
he/she/it would have spellcheck
we would have spellcheck
you would have spellcheck
they would have spellcheck
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been spellchecking
you would have been spellchecking
he/she/it would have been spellchecking
we would have been spellchecking
you would have been spellchecking
they would have been spellchecking
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you spellcheck
we let´s spellcheck
you spellcheck
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to spellcheck
Past participle
spellchecked
Present Participle
spellchecking
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SPELLCHECK


hacek
ˈhɑːtʃek
hatcheck
ˈhættʃek
pincheck
ˈpɪnˌtʃek
sidecheck
ˈsaɪdˌtʃek
spot-check
ˌspɒtˈtʃek

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SPELLCHECK

spell
spell a paddock
spell out
spellable
spellbind
spellbinder
spellbinding
spellbindingly
spellbound
spellchecker
spelldown
speller
spellful
spellican
spelling
spelling bee
spelling book
spelling checker
spelling error
spelling mistake

WORDS THAT END LIKE SPELLCHECK

background check
cashier´s check
check
credit check
crosscheck
dog´s-tooth check
double-check
gut check
health check
heck
in check
parity check
rain check
reality check
recheck
security check
sound check
speed check
take a rain check
time check
uncheck

Synonyms and antonyms of spellcheck in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «spellcheck» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SPELLCHECK

Find out the translation of spellcheck to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of spellcheck from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «spellcheck» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

拼写检查
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

corrección ortográfica
570 millions of speakers

English

spellcheck
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

वर्तनी जाँच
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

التدقيق الإملائي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

орфографии
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

verificação ortográfica
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বানান যাচাই
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

vérification orthographique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

semak ejaan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Rechtschreibprüfung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

スペルチェックの
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

맞춤법 검사
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Spellcheck
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

kiểm tra chính tả
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பிழைதிருத்தும்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

शब्दलेखन तपासणी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yazım denetimi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

controllo ortografico
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pisowni
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

орфографії
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

spellcheck
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ορθογραφικού ελέγχου
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

gekorrigeerde
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

stavningskontroll
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

stavekontroll
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of spellcheck

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SPELLCHECK»

The term «spellcheck» is regularly used and occupies the 73.938 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of spellcheck
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «spellcheck».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SPELLCHECK» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «spellcheck» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «spellcheck» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about spellcheck

EXAMPLES

QUOTES WITH «SPELLCHECK»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word spellcheck.
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Bill Walsh
Machines aren't replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SPELLCHECK»

Discover the use of spellcheck in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to spellcheck and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Pro SQL Server 2005 Integration Services
polymorphism, OOP, 361 Post-Build event property, SpellCheck class library, 410 Post-Build event, SpellCheck Data Flow transform, 444 PostError method, SpellCheck Data Flow transform, 417 PostExecute method overridable methods in ...
Jim Wightman, 2007
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OpenOffice.org For Dummies
_ Figure 3-10: Use the Spellcheck dialog box to clean up any spelling errors. _ Misspelled words look unprofessional in your document, so take the time to check the spelling. These days, you don't have to find the dictionary to check your  ...
Gurdy Leete, Ellen Finkelstein, Mary Leete, 2004
3
The HTML5 Developer's Collection (Collection)
Like the contenteditable attribute, all you need to do is add spellcheck=true to your form element, like this: <textarea spellcheck=true></textarea> You can write this attribute with a true or false value, or you can write it as an empty element, ...
Jennifer Kyrnin, Chuck Hudson, Tom Leadbetter, 2011
4
Sams Teach Yourself HTML5 Mobile Application Development in ...
HTML5 provides the global attribute spellcheck, which indicates that the element's contents are subject to spell checking and grammar checking. This global attribute can be placed on any element, but browser support is best on form elements ...
Jennifer Kyrnin, 2012
5
Solr 1.4 Enterprise Search Server
spellcheck.extendedResults: This booleanoption adds frequencyinformation ( bothforthe original word, and forthe suggestions).Itdefaults to falseand is helpful when debugging. spellcheck.collate: Thisadds a revised query string to the ...
David Smiley, Eric Pugh, 2009
6
Revising and Editing for Translators
Spellcheck The Spellcheck funcon is valuable because it automacally catches typographical errors which the eye can easily miss (e.g. instutuonal). However, it is important to remember that Spellcheck soware is only an aid. It does not ...
Brian Mossop, 2014
7
Apache Solr 4 Cookbook
extendedResults">true</str> <strname="spellcheck.count">5</str> <str name=" spellcheck. ... </lst> <arr name="lastcomponents"> <str>spellcheck</str> </arr> </ requestHandler> Solr cache configuration As you mayalready know,caches play  ...
Rafał Kuć, 2013
8
Your Visual Blueprint for Designing Rich Web Pages and ...
This feature is enabled when a spellcheck attribute is enabled on an editable text block. Note that content displayed on a site that is not editable is not spell- checked. This technique can apply to almost any editable text block. This is possible ...
CompX Digital
9
Comdex Linux & Open Office Course Kit 2008 Edition (W/Cd)
One possible answer would be to close the Spellcheck dialog box and replace the incorrect word with the correct woid. However, spellchecking would be much easier and quicker if we could use the Spellcheck dialog box to enter a correct ...
Vikas Gupta, 2004
10
E-Quals Level 1 Office XP Presentation Graphics
Task 2.6 Spellcheck a presentation Method 1 2 3 4 5 6 Click on Open button \jjf- Click on Portway Homes. Click on Open. Select Normal view if not already selected. Click on the Spelling and Grammar button ^ The Spelling and Grammar  ...
Rosemarie Wyatt, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SPELLCHECK»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term spellcheck is used in the context of the following news items.
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Practice Pointer: Don't Let Your iPhone Spellcheck Your Brief
The latest brief in the D.C. Circuit from Noel Canning Co. shows the dangers of allowing spell-check to do your proofreading. After the Supreme Court held ... «Above the Law, Jun 15»
2
Note to Stenmark boys: Spellcheck your waistbands
THEY had one job — to promote the label that booked them. However it seems the Stenmark twins had a little bit of trouble publicising Calvin Klein correctly at ... «The Daily Telegraph, May 15»
3
Microsoft adds Game of Thrones words to Word's spellcheck
The change was first spotted by Historian Greg Jenner, who fired off a tweet recently about it saying, “Microsoft Word's spellcheck seems to know all the names ... «SlashGear, Apr 15»
4
Column 8: Prudish spellcheck
"There has been much talk of words that spellcheck doesn't recognise. As a medical academic, I sometimes have to refer to the male genital organ. However ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Mar 15»
5
Using spellcheck? Electromagnetic fields could reveal what you're …
It has long been known that subtle electronic fields and noises emitted by computers can reveal clues about your activity, a powerful spying method that can be ... «Computerworld, Jan 15»
6
Spellcheck May Be Putting Your Computer At Risk, Hackers …
PC World notes that one particularly interesting find was in regards to users running spellcheck. Milos Prvulovic, one of the researchers, notes that there's not a ... «The Inquisitr, Jan 15»
7
Half of Britons can't spell 'fluorescent' without spellcheck, literacy …
More than one in five would panic if they found themselves without spellchecking technology and rely on their own knowledge. Over a fifth of those polled said ... «The Independent, Oct 14»
8
Breakup Text FAIL Proves Importance of Spell-Check, Makes Us LOL
And something tells us he didn't learn how to use spellcheck in school. Gee, I wonder what gave it away that he wasn't an automated robot?? Breakup Text FAIL. «The Hollywood Gossip, May 14»
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Norwegian sculptor blames English spellcheck for Oslo war …
A Norwegian sculptor has blamed an English spellcheck after it emerged that a 1.2 million krone (£120,000) war memorial unveiled in Oslo last month included ... «The Independent, Dec 13»
10
New Spellcheck Mode And Customizable Lists Arrive On Google …
Two new improvements you can try out on Google Drive include a new way to spellcheck your whole document in one go and a way to have better control with ... «MakeUseOf, Aug 13»

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