Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

spellcheck

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.03 in modern English

Syllables: spellcheck
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The act of spellchecking.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

A spellchecker.

Countable; Uncountable

verb

To check that words in written text are properly spelled.

verb

To run a spellchecker on (a document).

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"You'd better run another spellcheck now that you've written that extra chapter."
"My wordprocessor is supposed to have a spellcheck, but I don't know how to use it."
""We want to make sure our children know how to spell in English." They will if they learn the Reading Reform way, Mrs. Goldberg told them. "I've been teaching this method for 18 years," she said. And never once used a spelling aid? "Well," she said, "I am a recent user of 'spellcheck.' I thought I might make some typos on the computer and spellcheck would pick that up. So I started using it. Then the other day I found I made a serious error, and it hadn't been picked up. I had come to rely on spellcheck!""

Etymology

Back-formation from spellchecker.

Usage

Inflected Forms

spellchecks (plural) spell check (alternative) spell-check (alternative) spellchecks (present, singular) spellchecking (participle, present) spellchecked (participle, past) spellchecked (past)

Questions

What does spellcheck mean?: The act of spellchecking.
Where does spellcheck come from?: Back-formation from spellchecker.

How to pronounce spellcheck

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