spell checker

noun

1. a computer program for checking the spelling of words in an electronic document.

Word History and Origins

Origin of spell checker¹

First recorded in 1980–85

Example Sentences

His parodies of advertisements included such future real-life products as automatic redialing for a telephone, a computer spell checker and graffiti-proof surfaces.

From Washington Times

His parodies of advertisements included such future real-life products as automatic redialing for a telephone, a computer spell checker and graffiti-proof surfaces.

From Seattle Times

This makes it possible to sandbox critical browser subcomponents like its spell checker, effectively allowing it to treat them as untrusted code while still running in the same process.

From The Verge

As of today’s release, Firefox is isolating five modules: its Graphite font rendering engine, Hunspell spell checker, Ogg multimedia container format, Expat XML parser, and Woff2 web font compression format.

From The Verge

The algorithm, developed by Michèle Nuijten, then a Ph.D. student at Tilburg, together with Sacha Epskamp of the University of Amsterdam, scours papers for statistical results reported in standardized formats, then examines them for errors, like a mathematical spell checker.

From Science Magazine