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spellcheck

spellcheck noun: the act of spellchecking.

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.
    • "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...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...

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).

spellcheck meaning in Kannada

spellcheck in Kannada

ಉಲಿಯೊರೆ, ಉಲಿಕಂತೆಯೊರೆ, ಕಾಗುಣಿತ ಸರಿನೋಡು

Forms of spellcheck

Noun
pluralspellchecks
alternative formspell check
alternative formspell-check
Verb
third-person singular presentspellchecks
present participlespellchecking
past participlespellchecked
pastspellchecked

Origin of spellcheck

Back-formation from spellchecker.

Questions about spellcheck

What does spellcheck mean?
Spellcheck means the act of spellchecking.
What is spellcheck in Kannada?
Spellcheck in Kannada is ಉಲಿಯೊರೆ, ಉಲಿಕಂತೆಯೊರೆ, ಕಾಗುಣಿತ ಸರಿನೋಡು. See Spellcheck meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is spellcheck?
Spellcheck can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of spellcheck?
The plural of spellcheck is spellchecks.

Words near spellcheck in the dictionary

  1. spellcaster
  2. spellcasters
  3. spellcasting
  4. spellcastings
  5. spellcasts
  6. spellcheck
  7. spellchecked
  8. spellchecker
  9. spellcheckers
  10. spellchecking
  11. spellchecks

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: spellcheck (page history and authors); spellcheck (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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