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spell checker
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software used to detect misspelled words, in a document
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Encyclopedic overview
In software, a spell checker (or spelling checker or spell check) is a software feature that checks for misspellings in a text. Spell-checking features are often embedded in software or services, such as a word processor, email client, electronic dictionary, or search engine.
Google Chrome spell checker in action for the above poem, the word "chequer" marked as unrecognized word
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “spell checker” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.