Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word . In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word , but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word you have here. The definition of the word will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition of, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
See also: spell check and spell-check

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Back-formation from spellchecker.

Noun

spellcheck (countable and uncountable, plural spellchecks)

  1. The act of spellchecking.
    You'd better run another spellcheck now that you've written that extra chapter.
  2. A spellchecker.
    My wordprocessor is supposed to have a spellcheck, but I don't know how to use it.
    • 1995 April 9, Diane Ketcham, “About Long Island; ‘If You Can’t Spell You Look Stupid’”, in The New York Times‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-05-26:
      "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!"

Verb

spellcheck (third-person singular simple present spellchecks, present participle spellchecking, simple past and past participle spellchecked)

  1. To check that words in written text are properly spelled.
  2. (transitive) To run a spellchecker on (a document).
Wikious
Boobota
Sagapedia