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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. spelks
  2. spelky
  3. spell
  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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