Where can I find a free online spell checker?

Posted by tehsauce on Saturday May 28, 2022 @06:44PM
from the self-post dept.

Does anyone know of a simple free online spell checking tool? I used to be able to find this easily using google but now all the results are paid subscription services that ask for money/signup.

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Re:Where can I find a free online spell checker? by efortis on Saturday May 28, 2022 @06:49PM (#31544557)

Why online? I mean you can use Libre Office.

or Pages if you are on macOS

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Re:Where can I find a free online spell checker? by tehsauce on Saturday May 28, 2022 @06:56PM (#31544592)

That's a good point those are good options. Sometimes if you're already in a browser its easier to just stay there, ctrl/cmd-t "spell check" and then just paste is less actions than opening pages, selecting document template type -> create new. On macOS textedit is also a good option, might use that from now on.

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Re:Where can I find a free online spell checker? by necovek on Saturday May 28, 2022 @08:14PM (#31545027)

There are CLI tools like aspell or hunspell that GUI tools are based on.

How you'd integrate them with your workflow is beyond me, though :)

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Re:Where can I find a free online spell checker? by version_five on Saturday May 28, 2022 @07:28PM (#31544780)

I think many browsers have spell check dont they? Couldn't you just leave a tab with a text entry form open and type into that? Or just type the word into Google.

Maybe I'm not understanding the use case

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Re:Where can I find a free online spell checker? by roneoo on Sunday May 29, 2022 @12:49AM (#31546477)

Grammarly is nice (as a non native English speaker)

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