Spell-check

Quick meaning: Spell-check is a noun meaning Alternative form of spellcheck.

Meaning

Alternative form of spellcheck.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• spell-checks
• spell-checking
• spell-checked

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include spellcheck, orthographize, spell, skywrite, orthographise, orthography.

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