Spell Checker Freeware

Speak N Spell was developed to help you practice your spelling abilities. Compatible: Macintosh and Windows XP.

Speak N Spell was designed to help you practice your spelling abilities.When you first launch Speak N Spell, the default word set of over 47,000 words is used. You can open the Word Maintenance window from the menu bar and revise this dictionary (add or delete words), use your own set of words (clear the table and add words), or load a plain text file with words.

The five levels of difficulty are:

    * a. Easy - Uses only words with three letters
    * b. Medium - Uses words with four to six letters
    * c. Hard - Uses words with seven to ten letters
    * d. Hardest - Uses words with more than ten letters
    * d. Mixed - Uses all dictionary words

Score is not kept. If you don't understand the word, you can ask to see the word or just ignore that word and ask for another word.

It is suggested that the System Preferences/Speech/Text to Speech Speaking Rate be set for Slow. Experiment with different voices. Vicki is an good Speaking Voice but you can try the others. The difficulty level and the Dictionary Word set are saved between sessions.

Link: download Spell Checker Freeware for Windows Xp (1,4 Mbytes) or Macintosh (3,0 Mbytes).

Freeware Spell Checker Text

ieSpell is a free Internet Explorer browser extension that spell checks text input boxes on a webpage.

It should come in particularly handy for users who do a lot of web-based text entry (e.g. web mails, forums, blogs, diaries). Even if your web application already includes spell checking functionality, you might still want to install this utility because it is definitely much faster than a server-side solution. Plus you get to store and use your personal word list across all your applications, instead of maintaining separate ones on each application.

The program installs as a new button in the IE toolbar (as well as a new menu item under "Tools") - after filling in a form, just hit the ieSpell button and it pops up a dialog, similar to the MS Word spell check. ieSpell also works (right-click menu only) on other IE based browsers such as SlimBrowser, CrazyBrowser, MSN, MyIE, etc.

ieSpell is not spyware or adware. It's free for personal use only. All other use requires a commercial license. See Licensing for more information.
If you find ieSpell useful, please express your satisfaction with a donation. Your donations will help to support its future development.

Features

    * Completely standalone spell checker for your web browser. Does not require Microsoft Office or any other third party components.
    * Integrates flawlessly with Internet Explorer and other IE based browsers.
    * Three ways to start the spell check; via the right click context menu, the toolbar or the menu bar.
    * Supports a wide range of web applications including simple text forms, rich text editors, forums, blogs, webmail (including Outlook Web Access and Lotus iNotes) and more!
    * Spell check in any of the 3 variants (US, UK and Canadian) of the English Language!
    * Suggestions are sorted by the degree of closeness with the misspelled word.
    * Intelligent suggesting for misspelled words using typographic “looks like” matching.
    * Easily add/remove your personal words in ieSpell via an intuitive user interface!
    * Organise your personal words in individual custom dictionaries! Share them with your friends and co-workers over the network!
    * Integrates with Microsoft Office's proofing tools. Have ieSpell share the same copy of the custom dictionary so that when you add/remove your personal words in ieSpell, the same is reflected in Microsoft Office and vice versa!
    * ieSpell suggested a word that you are not familiar with? Look up its meaning in an online dictionary!
    * Powerful API for web application developers.
          o Force users to spell check the document before submission.
          o Ignore certain text fields.
          o Refuse a form submission if the user cancels the spell check!

Compatible Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP. Download 1,96 Mbyte.

Link: download spell checker Internet Explorer.