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Open the Wikipedia article, select "edit" from the menu atop the page or section, select and copy the article source, paste it into a Word or Writer document, follow the red (spelling) and green (grammar) markers, and correct mistakes as necessary. To enable spellchecking in Microsoft Word, go to the Tools menu and enable "Grammar and ...
The Wikipedia Typo Team is dedicated to improving the quality of Wikipedia by correcting typos and misspellings. If you see any typos (even minor ones), please correct them. This kind of editing is a never-ending job, so we could use your help! Please consider joining our team. All you need to do is start correcting typos.
Spell checkers can use approximate string matching algorithms such as Levenshtein distance to find correct spellings of misspelled words. [1] An alternative type of spell checker uses solely statistical information, such as n-grams , to recognize errors instead of correctly-spelled words.
For a full list of editing commands, see Help:Wikitext For including parser functions, variables and behavior switches, see Help:Magic words For a guide to displaying mathematical equations and formulas, see Help:Displaying a formula
The lists of common spelling mistakes linked below are used to correct typographical errors throughout Wikipedia. Each entry lists a typo, followed by the correct spelling in parentheses; clicking on the typo will search for it throughout Wikipedia. See Wikipedia:Typo for information on and coordination of spellchecking work.
Rationale: 1) spell check describes a subset of functionality that does not always come with grammar checking; 2) spell check is a common phrase that is used to indicate the operation of checking spelling (which does not necessarily coincide with checking grammar); 3) The feature of spell checking occurs in more kinds of software than just word ...
Most web browsers have built-in spellchecking. You can use external websites or software to check for errors. If you want to focus only on misspellings, these tools are handy: User:Lupin/Live spellcheck – for monitoring misspellings as they are added; Wikipedia:Typo Team/moss – for finding misspellings in existing text
This page provides a list of English words, terms, abbreviations and acronyms commonly encountered by Wikipedia editors. You may copy it and add it to your software's spell-check dictionary. Please add to the list!