If you have accumulated a collection of misspelled words in the Microsoft Word Spelling and Grammar Check custom dictionary, you can create a new dictionary to reset the check features and start a new ...

Check spelling as you type, or not? Choose here. You use Word’s spelling checker every day, and probably just as often encounter some of the tool’s puzzling behavior. Do you know how to get rid of a ...

Auslaut. Erysipelas. Bougainvillea. Pendeloque.We'd challenge you to have even heard of some of the words, let alone to spell them. But they're just some of the words that the eight winners of the ...

In any Word document, click "File" and then "Options." Open the Proofing tab and uncheck the "Ignore words in UPPERCASE" box. Press "OK." If you have "Check spelling as you type" enabled, all ...

If you have particular trouble with certain spellings, it seems you might not be as stupid as you thought. Researchers claim that a number of words are misspelt simply because we're too clever. For ...

Reader Michael Glotzer would like to take a peek inside Apple’s spell checking dictionary. He writes: Do you know a tip to synchronize, review, and/or edit user additions to the OS X built in spell ...

The trophy awarded to the winner of the country's most well-known annual spelling bee was hoisted in the air in victory on Thursday by not one, not three, not even five pairs of hands — but eight. In ...

As the English language evolves, dictionaries are always trying to keep up. Last week, Dictionary.com unveiled its latest update, which includes new words like “antifragile,” “forever chemicals,” ...

We’d challenge you to have even heard of some of the words, let alone spell them. But they’re just some of the words that the eight winners of the Scripps National Spelling Bee conquered late Thursday ...