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Free Spell Checker

Dave Riley

Dave Riley

master brummie
This little spell checking utility called Web Word may come in handy for users of this forum who like to check the spelling in their posts before posting and as there is no spell check facility on the forum may find this utility very useful. It is free to download and is free to use for more than 30 days as long as you do not make more than 3 airplane trips per year. I think it was written by a “green campaigner with a sense of humour”, but trust me it works fine. When installed you can hold down the Ctrl key + right click the mouse on any word to spell check it in any program or on any web page such as this forum. Many other features are included too, once installed right click on the little “W” icon in the system tray and click help for all features and instructions. See attached picture for a screen shot of it in use on this forum.

Downloadable from – https://wordweb.info/free/
 
Great fun is a translator.The finished page can be hilarious. Never fails to make me smile. Checking my computer I have about half a dozen spell checkers attached to various programs and toolbars. I need something to correct my poor use of the English language .
 
The google one is good Patty however this one, Word Web, works with any application not just when using your web browser, you can even spell check folder names and file names with it! Best I have seen for a while, that's why I thought I would pass the link on to everyone here. It's a must for me, I can't spell for toffee!
 
I already seem to have some sort of built-in spell checker which I didn't install because if I type a miss-spelled word in the reply box a red-line appears under it until I correct it. I thought it was the forum correcting me, but maybe it's Firefox. Whatever it is, it must be American because it red-lines 'colour' but not 'color'! Your program looks useful as a Thesaurus.:)
 
Yes Maggie it works with Firefox. It works in any application. You just put the mouse cursor over the word you want to check, hold down the Ctrl key and right click. I have tried this with loads of apps not just Internet browsers. Even works with help topics so you can see what a technical word might mean. Even speaks the word if you don't know how to pronounce it!
 
Firefox does have a spell checker of sorts, Mohawk. Look in Options - Advanced - General Tab. Nothing like this Word Web though and the price of Word Web suits me down to the ground!
 
I have one in Firefox which is permanently on, it underlines anything I write which it thinks is incorrect.

Which reminds me of...

Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a quay and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error write
Its rare lea ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.
 
Great one Lloyd. I wish I could find a program to correct my grammar. I think most of my spellcheckers are set to English (US). My having been born in Walsall does have its advantages..No one understands me anyway.
 
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