enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Spell checker - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spell_checker

    The challenge the developers faced was the difficulty in offering useful suggestions for misspelled words. This requires reducing words to a skeletal form and applying pattern-matching algorithms. It might seem logical that where spell-checking dictionaries are concerned, "the bigger, the better," so that correct words are not marked as incorrect.

  3. Wikipedia:Lists of common misspellings - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lists_of_common...

    The guiding rule should be to include words if they are more likely to be incorrect spellings than correct spellings even if it means that occasionally there will be false positives. Keep in mind some words could be corrected to multiple different possibilities and some are names of brands, songs, or products. These are just the most common.

  4. List of commonly misused English words - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commonly_misused...

    Suit is a noun meaning an article of clothing; it is also a verb meaning to make/be appropriate. Suite is a noun meaning a set of things forming a series or set. [109] Standard: He got dressed in his new suit. Standard: Before leaving the hotel suite, she checked her lipstick in the mirror. Non-standard: That wall color will suite our apartment ...

  5. Use spell check in AOL Mail

    help.aol.com/articles/check-spelling-in-new-aol-mail

    Don't worry about relying on your browser's spell check feature. With AOL Mail, click one button to check the entire contents of your email to ensure that everything is spelled correctly. In addition, you'll never need worry about typos or misspelled words again by enabling auto spell check. Use spell check

  6. English irregular verbs - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_irregular_verbs

    (The verb do has a similar vowel shortening in does and done; see below.) Verbs irregular only in spelling: lay–laid, pay–paid (although in the meaning "let out", of a rope etc., pay may have the regular spelling payed). For weak verbs that have adopted strong-type past tense or past participle forms, see the section above on strong verbs.

  7. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Spelling

    en.wikipedia.org/.../Spelling

    The following is a handy reference for editors, listing various common spelling differences between national varieties of English. Please note: If you are not familiar with a spelling, please do some research before changing it – it may be your misunderstanding rather than a mistake, especially in the case of American and British English spelling differences.

  8. Discover the latest breaking news in the U.S. and around the world — politics, weather, entertainment, lifestyle, finance, sports and much more.

  9. Commonly misspelled English words - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonly_misspelled...

    Personal names and surnames may be pronounced like a standard English word, but with different spelling: "balance" and "John Ballance"; "war" and "Evelyn Waugh" (if spoken with a non-rhotic accent); "marshal" and "George Marshall"; "chaplain" and "Charlie Chaplin". Personal names do, of course, generally start with a capital letter.