spell Command spell
Find spelling errors
spell [-a][-b][file ...]
spell builds a set of unique words from a document contained in
each input file, or the standard input if none. It writes a list
of words believed to be misspelled onto the standard output.
spell should normally be invoked with the document in the form of
the input to the text formatter nroff rather than the output.
spell deletes control information to the formatter by invoking
deroff.
The default dictionary is for American spelling of English. The
-a option specifies this dictionary explicitly. Under the -b
option, British spelling is checked. This accepts favour, fibre,
and travelled rather than the American spellings favor, fiber,
and traveled for the same words. Words ending in ize are also
accepted when ending in ise (e.g., digitize, digitise).
The dictionary has a reasonably complete coverage of proper names
as well as technical terms in certain fields. However, it covers
some fields (e.g., computer science) better than others (e.g.,
medicine).
***** Files *****
/usr/dict/clista -- Compressed American dictionary
/usr/dict/clistb -- Compressed British dictionary
/usr/dict/spellhist -- History file for dictionary maintainer
/usr/lib/spell
***** See Also *****
commands, deroff, nroff, sort, typo
***** Notes *****
Dictionaries are not provided for languages other than English.
No dictionary can be complete. You must add new words to the
dictionary to ensure that it fully meets your needs.
Obscure words (such as opcodes, variable names, etc.) are flagged
as spelling errors.
Because the data files required for spell are quite large, they
might not be included on COHERENT systems for machines with in-
sufficient disk space. As a result, the command might not work
as expected on all systems.
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