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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 ...
[2] In some cases, spell checkers use a fixed list of misspellings and suggestions for those misspellings; this less flexible approach is often used in paper-based correction methods, such as the see also entries of encyclopedias. Clustering algorithms have also been used for spell checking [3] combined with phonetic information. [4]
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!
A numeric character reference refers to a character by its Universal Character Set/Unicode code point, and a character entity reference refers to a character by a predefined name. A numeric character reference uses the format &#nnnn; or &#xhhhh; where nnnn is the code point in decimal form, and hhhh is the code point in hexadecimal form.
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Wikipedia:Lists of common misspellings (comprehensive) Wikipedia:List of commonly misused English words, though there will be many false positives (so using a grammar checker on a specific article or database dump might be more useful) Doubled words are common, so you can make up your own phrases like "the the" and "of of".
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.