My Spellchecker often doesn't pick up the typos I make, it knows it's wrong but it can't offer a suggestion. So instead of everyone maintaining their own dictionarys, have everyone's spell checkers networked so that the most common misspellings or typos are always picked up. New words entering the lexicon can easily be corrected automatically.
-- simonj, Jun 10 2009

Network Spellcheck http://help.samobile.net/SpellCheck.html
[21 Quest, Jun 11 2009]

They have this for some phones, I think. When I use the touchscreen keyboard on mine, it seems to unerringly correct every typo I make, and the predictive text options that scroll across the top are impressive. Not sure if something like that is available for PCs, but I'll do some checking around.
-- 21 Quest, Jun 10 2009


sp: dictionaries
-- zen_tom, Jun 11 2009


you see??
-- simonj, Jun 11 2009


You would also need access to a comprehensive canonical source, like the OED, so you don't end up spelling certain words incorrectly because most other people make the same mistake.
-- Aristotle, Jun 11 2009


[21Q] the spellchecker in that link does not appear to networked, despite it's name.
-- simonj, Jun 11 2009


The problem with using the OED or something similarly exhaustive, is the same reason you don't want to use it as a scrabble dictionary. So many common misspellings are in it because they are other words.

A networked spellchecker would have very similar problems. Especially given the number of acronyms in existence, almost any 3-4 letter combination, and many longer ones will be in use by someone, and that person will want to add it do their dictionary.
-- MechE, Jun 11 2009


But it could also check the context ie. if it appears before or after certain other words.
-- simonj, Jun 11 2009



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