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spell-check

spell-check is the alternative form of spellcheck.

Meaning of spellcheck

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.

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Forms of spell-check

Noun
pluralspell-checks
Verb
third-person singular presentspell-checks
present participlespell-checking
past participlespell-checked
pastspell-checked

Questions about spell-check

What is spell-check the alternative form of?
Spell-check is the alternative form of spellcheck.

Words near spell-check in the dictionary

  1. spell things out
  2. spell work
  3. spell-bound
  4. spell-casting
  5. spell-castings
  6. spell-check
  7. spell-checked
  8. spell-checker
  9. spell-checkers
  10. spell-checking
  11. spell-checks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spell-check (page history and authors); spellcheck (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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