SPELL(I) 2/26/74 SPELL(I)
NAME
spell - find spelling errors
SYNOPSIS
spell file ...
DESCRIPTION
Spell attacks the same problem as typo (I), but from the
opposite direction. It extracts words from the input files
and looks them up in Webster's Seventh Collegiate
Dictionary; any words which appear neither in the dictionary
nor in a list of about 2000 words frequently occuring in
Bell Laboratories documents are listed on the output file
sp.out. Words which are reasonable transformations of
dictionary entries (e.g. a dictionary entry plus s ) are so
marked; words which could not be found even when transformed
are marked with asterisks.
The process takes on the order of 5 to 10 minutes. There is
a limit of nine input files.
FILES
/usr/lib/w2006, /usr/dict/words, sp.out; spjnkq[123] are
temporaries.
SEE ALSO
typo (I)
BUGS
There should be no limit on the number of input files.
More suffixes, and perhaps some prefixes, should be added.
It should be usable as a filter.