Perhaps the most obvious way to build a spell checker is by simply looking up each word in a dictionary. With modern hardware this wouldn’t be too hard, but disks in the ’70s were extremely ...

Spell jars, also known as witch bottles or charm bottles, are powerful tools in folk magic and contemporary witchcraft for ...

Oddly, "misspell," a not-particularly easy word to spell, is not on a recently released list of words Americans most often misspell. But as the Scripps National Spelling Bee gets underway, a study ...

After WordPad was killed last year, Microsoft paid a little bit of attention to Notepad by finally giving it a spell check feature. If you’re still using Notepad in 2025, you should consider ...