Spelling Suggestions

Paste (or type) a single English word and get back the closest matches from a 63 000-word common-English dictionary, ranked by Damerau–Levenshtein edit distance (substitutions, insertions, deletions, and adjacent transpositions each count as one edit). Eight common typos are pre-loaded as preset chips — click one to see what the dictionary would have suggested. Runs entirely in your browser; nothing is uploaded.

Dictionary: idle.

Common typos

One click to drop a frequent misspelling into the input. The dictionary matches the right spelling on the first suggestion in all of these cases.

Suggestions

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Type a word above to see suggestions.

How this spell-checker ranks suggestions

Suggestions are scored by Damerau–Levenshtein distance, the same metric GNU Aspell, hunspell, and most modern spell-checkers use. Each insertion, deletion, substitution, and adjacent transposition (mistyped teh for the) counts as one edit. Ties break by how close the candidate's length is to the input, so car outranks care for a typo of cat.

The dictionary is a curated 63 000-word list of common English words — the same list the Anagram Finder uses. It is fetched on the first query (about 700 kB), then cached for the page lifetime. There is no network call beyond that initial fetch and no telemetry.

The cutoff defaults to 2 edits (covers the bulk of single-typo mistakes and most two-edit typos). Drop it to 1 for stricter suggestions or raise it to 3 if the right word is at the very edge of the candidate list.

This tool is a spell-checker, not a context checker. It assumes you typed real-English letters and it returns orthographically close dictionary matches. It will not catch homophones (their / there / they're) or grammar errors that are themselves valid words.