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spellchecking

spellchecking is the present participle and gerund of spellcheck.

Meaning of spellcheck

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).

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Questions about spellchecking

What is spellchecking the present participle and gerund of?
Spellchecking is the present participle and gerund of spellcheck.

Words near spellchecking in the dictionary

  1. spellcasts
  2. spellcheck
  3. spellchecked
  4. spellchecker
  5. spellcheckers
  6. spellchecking
  7. spellchecks
  8. spellcraft
  9. spelldown
  10. spelldowns
  11. spelled

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spellchecking (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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