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===<span id="SPELL"></span>How do I check spelling on a page?===
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:A spelling checker has been requested for Wikipedia, but has not been implemented yet, except as a [http://code.google.com/p/wikimediaspellchecker/ third-party extension]. Some common web browsers have a built-in simple spell checker for forms such as Wikipedia editing forms. You may also install a browser addon for more advanced spelling and grammar checking, such as [[LanguageTool]], or use another online spelling checker. When editing a larger article, it may be more convenient to paste the text into your [[text editor]] or [[word processor]] first, to edit and check the spelling there, and then paste your corrected text back into Wikipedia editor to complete your contribution.
:There is a [[Wikipedia:List of common misspellings|list of common misspellings]], which you can use to check if a listed misspelling is on any page in the database, although this process fails to identify any misspelled words not on that list.