spell-check

spell-check (countable and uncountable, plural spell-checks)

1. Alternative form of spellcheck.
   • 2015 April 6, Mary Norris, “Spelling Is for Weirdos”, in Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen, New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, published 2016, →ISBN, page 16:

     Some people might wonder why we still need copy editors when we have spell-check. Although it is a pain whenever I want to double a consonant before a suffix, per New Yorker style, and the spell-check prefers the no-frills version—“mislabeled,” say, instead of “mislabelled”—and I have to go back and poke in the extra letter and then put up with a disapproving red line under the word, I would never disable spell-check.

   • 2015 November 10, Marilyn Heltzer, “Some advice for the upcoming holiday season”, in The Bemidji Pioneer, 119th year, number 203, Bemidji, Minn., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 8, column 2:

     Maybe the guys make things with kale, kohlrabi, exotic vegetables, and their favorite spice is cilantro. Which I have in my cupboard, but never use. And yes, I know how to spell cilantro, without using spell-check.

   • 2016 May 6, Kristen Asleson, “Did you read what you just wrote?”, in Post-Bulletin, Rochester, Minn.: Post-Bulletin Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page A6, column 2:

     Day in and day out, administrative assistants, sales people, executives and people holding all types of positions continue to make silly errors in emails, correspondence, fliers and advertisements. Most of these errors could be avoided by proofreading and using spell-check.

spell-check (third-person singular simple present spell-checks, present participle spell-checking, simple past and past participle spell-checked)

1. Alternative form of spellcheck.