Wikipedia:Typo Team

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Welcome to the Wikipedia Typo Department. November 22, 2003 was our first typo correction day.

Typos that need to be corrected

Please list here any spellings or typos in need of correction. If only one or two articles exist with an incorrect spelling, please feel free to correct them yourself instead of listing the word here.

Work in progress

  • I'm writing a spell checker. It's showing many madeup words in prototyping. See my user page on Meta. -- Archivist 00:17, Nov 30, 2003 (UTC)
    • Wikitravel has a spellchecker running somehow. Is this of any help? -- Kokiri 08:30, 9 Jan 2004 (UTC)
      • It's the same one that was turned off in Wikipedia because it slowed down the database. -phma 13:59, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Checking spelling

The tools below can be used if you are unsure of how a word is spelled and do not have an actual dictionary handy.

Free internet dictionaries

Free online spell checkers

Miscellaneous

  • The latest version of Konqueror highlights misspelled words in text boxes.
  • Users of Mac OS X can spell-check an input box in Safari from the "Spelling" submenu in the context menu of the box (activated via Control-click or right-click). Spell-check-as-you-type can also be enabled there or alternatively in the application "Edit" menu.
  • Users of Mozilla Firefox can download the Spellbound extension to check spelling. See User:Omegatron#Spell checker.
    • I have been using the "SpellBound" extension for my Firefox web browser to do my Wikipedia spell-checking and recommend it. It works much like any spell-checker in a word-processor, and does spell-checking inside any form. It comes with American English already installed, and you can add additional language-country variations such as British English. It is relatively slow on my 400 mHz computer, but that is only a problem on large articles. [[User:GK|gK ¿?]] 08:23, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • [www.iespell.com ieSpell] is a good spell-checker for Internet Explorer. Right-click in the edit box to check spelling. Miss Pippa 23:50, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Using online dictionaries

If a word does not exist, you often get this kind of result:

Did you mean exec rise?

Make sure to click the underlined word, then check if that word does exist, because the underlined word or words in the message do not always exist. But often when you get this message, it gives the correct spelling or it gives the word of which what you're trying to look up is derived of.

When you look up an entry, punctuation and capitalization do not make any difference. For example, looking up "etc", "etc.", "ETC", "et.c.", or "e-t-c" all yield the same results. Unfortunately, some entries that come up when using improper punctuation or capitalization suggest that the punctuation is right. When looking up "et.c.", for example, the top entry may punctuate it correctly with one full stop, but another entry may punctuate it incorrectly as "et.c." (i.e., the same punctuation you typed in the search box). With the American Heritage Dictionary, an entry is always properly punctuated and capitalized, but often some other entries are punctuated and capitalized just as you typed them.

Work completed

  • "apperance" (11 found) -- Nikai 02:46, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • "apperances" (8 found) -- Nikai 02:58, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • "futhermore" (7 found) -- Nikai 11:43, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • "moreso" (8 found) -- Nikai 20:52, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • "interchangable" (20 found) -- Nikai 15:43, 19 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • "noticable" (10 found) -- Chris Roy 20:52, 19 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • "thier" (5 found) -- Chris Roy 07:31, 24 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • "equiped" (4 found) -- Chris Roy 07:31, 24 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • "sucess" (6 found) -- Sandman 19:47, 24 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • "succes" (6 found) -- Sandman 20:03, 24 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • "albiet" (10 found) -- Nikai 15:00, 26 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • "intially" (37 found) -- Nikai 02:45, 27 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • "intial" (18 found) -- Nikai 10:58, 27 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • "futher" (21 found) -- Nikai 15:27, 27 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • "coersion" (2 found) -- Richard cocks 21:21, Mar 30, 2004 (UTC)
  • "alot" (2 found) -- Chris Roy 01:45, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • "prefered" (6 found) -- Chris Roy 02:07, 6 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Everything listed under "D" (a few hundred found) -- Cyrius|&#9998 22:57, Apr 10, 2004 (UTC)
  • Everything listed under "E" (about a hundred found) -- Cyrius|&#9998 05:00, Apr 17, 2004 (UTC)
  • "appropiate" (3 found) -- Chris Roy 05:17, 2 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Everything listed under "F" (27 found) -- Cyrius|&#9998 18:19, May 2, 2004 (UTC)
  • "and and" (15 found) -- Sandman 09:25, 7 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Everything listed under "M" through "marryied" (23 found) -- Jrdioko (Talk) 04:44, May 17, 2004 (UTC)
  • Everything listed under "M" through "millenia" (approximately 40 found) -- Jrdioko (Talk) 23:52, May 17, 2004 (UTC)
  • "the the" (187 found) -- sjorford 16:09, 23 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • "millenium" and "millitary" (12 found) -- -- Jrdioko (Talk) 20:16, 30 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • "lastest" (2 found) -- 22:34, 31 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Everything listed under "N" through "noth" (31 found) -- nadavspi 12:33, 2 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  • "seperate" (12 found) -- Sarge Baldy 23:15, Jun 3, 2004 (UTC)
  • "villian" (19 found) -- Saaga 05:30, Jun 24, 2004 (UTC)
  • "yeild" (1 found) -- Saaga 05:38, Jun 24, 2004 (UTC)
  • "truely" (11 found) -- Saaga 18:44, Jun 24, 2004 (UTC)
  • "moreso" (17 found) -- Saaga 19:05, Jun 24, 2004 (UTC)
  • "wierd" (4 found) -- Saaga 07:06, Jun 25, 2004 (UTC)
  • "farenheit" (6 found) -- Saaga 21:43, Jul 6, 2004 (UTC)
  • "seperate" (22 found) -- Sandman 12:35, 10 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • "seperated" (1 found) -- Sandman 20:33, 10 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • "seperation" (1 found) -- Sandman 20:33, 10 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • everything listed under "A" (about 100 found) Chris Roy 10:40, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • everything listed under "B" and "C" (about 125 found) Chris Roy 13:44, 16 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • "remaing" (9 found) -- Sarge Baldy 10:43, Jul 19, 2004 (UTC)
  • "forcast" (4 found) -- Mike Storm 19:28, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • "therfore" (9 found) -- Mike Storm 16:04, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • "aand,annd,andd" (5 found) -- Mike Storm 20:39, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • "independance" (36 found) -- [[User:Mike Storm|Mike Storm (Talk)]] 17:57, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • "teh" (5 found) -- nadavspi 17:35, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • "Targetted & targetting" (36 found) --nadavspi 00:27, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Everything under "T" through "tendancies" (33 found) -- nadavspi 19:34, 6 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • "absense" (2 found) --[[User:Frazzydee|Frazzydee|✍]] 18:06, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • "accessable" (4 found) --[[User:Frazzydee|Frazzydee|✍]] 18:09, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • "obediance" (1 found) --[[User:Frazzydee|Frazzydee|✍]] 19:46, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • "benifit" (1 found) --[[User:Frazzydee|Frazzydee|✍]] 19:59, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • "apperance" (12 found) --Quandaryus 09:53, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Everything under "V" (14 found) --Nadavspi 21:04, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Everything listed under "G" through "Gandhi" (22 found) — Quandaryus | Talk 01:32, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • "seperate" (22 found) -- sjorford 12:46, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • "Independant" (41 found) -- Nadavspi 16:42, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • "Unviersity" (2 found) -- Pdefer 21:59, 2004 Oct 18 (UTC)
  • "Rythm" (3 found) -- Nadavspi 15:14, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • "Independant" (17 found) -- Nadavspi | talk 16:26, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • "Acceptible" (1 found) --[[User:Frazzydee|Frazzydee|✍]] 00:05, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • "Detatched" (1 found) --[[User:Frazzydee|Frazzydee|✍]] 00:08, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • "Dipersed" (1 found) --[[User:Frazzydee|Frazzydee|✍]] 00:10, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • "Disovery" (1 found) --[[User:Frazzydee|Frazzydee|✍]] 00:10, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • "Accross" (5 found) --[[User:Frazzydee|Frazzydee|✍]] 00:29, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • "Outword" (1 found) --[[User:Frazzydee|Frazzydee|✍]] 00:37, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • "Enviroment" (4 found) --[[User:Frazzydee|Frazzydee|✍]] 00:37, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • "Cuircuits" (2 found) --[[User:Frazzydee|Frazzydee|✍]] 00:46, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • "Secondry" (1 found) --[[User:Frazzydee|Frazzydee|✍]] 00:46, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • "Theier" (1 found) --[[User:Frazzydee|Frazzydee|✍]] 00:46, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • "Usefull" (2 found) --[[User:Frazzydee|Frazzydee|✍]] 00:46, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • "Impedence" (2 found) --[[User:Frazzydee|Frazzydee|✍]] 00:46, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • "Comprtment" (1 found) --[[User:Frazzydee|Frazzydee|✍]] 00:46, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • "Suppresors" (1 found) --[[User:Frazzydee|Frazzydee|✍]] 00:46, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • "personell" (11 found) --Jasper Chua 07:45, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • "ficitional" (4 found) --Jasper Chua 07:47, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • "peice" (5 found) -- [[User:Sarge Baldy|Sarge Baldy]] 04:36, Dec 5, 2004 (UTC)
  • "primarly" (51 found) -- [[User:Sarge Baldy|Sarge Baldy]] 20:03, Dec 9, 2004 (UTC)
  • "primative" (11 found) -- jni 08:24, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • "witht" (2 found) -- jni 08:24, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • "accomodate" (38 found, ~50 still left) -- jni 12:33, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • "mininum" (5 found) -- sjorford 17:30, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • "accomodate" (86 found) -- jni 10:04, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • "absorbtion" (3 found) -- JoaoRicardo 22:11, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • "missle" (3 found) Katefan0 17:12, Feb 9, 2005 (UTC)
  • "aslo" (3 found) Katefan0 17:23, Feb 9, 2005 (UTC)
  • "Philipines" (4 found) Katefan0 17:30, Feb 9, 2005 (UTC)
  • "prestigous" (6 found) Katefan0 17:44, Feb 9, 2005 (UTC)
  • "X-Box"/"XBox" (3 found) Katefan0 17:56, Feb 9, 2005 (UTC)
  • "absense" (3 found) Katefan0 18:03, Feb 9, 2005 (UTC)
  • "accomodate" (16 found) Katefan0 18:33, Feb 9, 2005 (UTC)
  • Katefan0 00:28, Feb 10, 2005 (UTC): "ideosyncratic" (2 found) "illegitimate" (1 found) "imigrated" (3 found) "imigration" (1 found) "immediatley" (3 found) "incidently" (3 found)
  • "Acomplish", "Achive", "Actualy", "Bandwith", "Acording" (9 total) Nadavspi | talk 01:00, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • "aberation", "absense", "aproval", "dificulty", dificulties","diferent", "disaproval", "diety", "faught" (6 total) - Marcika 01:31, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • "ther" (about 20 found) - Marcika 01:31, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • "the the" (found many - but also lot of false positives, did 10) - Marcika 01:44, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • "langauge" (10 found), "langauges" (6 found) - Nikai 16:33, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • "and and" (13 found) - Martpol 15:14, 11 Mar 2005
  • "completly" (3 found) - Martpol 19:01, 13 Mar 2005
  • "zepplin"/"Zepplin" (3 found) - Martpol 19:05, 13 Mar 2005
  • "hiting" (1 found) - Martpol 08:42, 16 Mar 2005
  • "beatiful" (1 found) - Martpol 08:47, 16 Mar 2005
  • "sucess"/"sucessful"/"sucessfully"/"sucessor"/"sucessorial"/"sucession"/"suceeded"/"suceeding" (61 found) - Martpol 14:42, 16 Mar 2005
  • "substancial" (1 found) - Martpol 12:03, 18 Mar 2005
  • "entrepeneur" (4 found) - TIMBO (T A L K) 03:31, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • "neccesarily" (5 found) - TIMBO (T A L K) 03:41, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • "prefering" (1 found) - Lst27 (talk) 21:19, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  1. "acomplished" (1 found) - Lst27 (talk) 21:24, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Members of the Typo Team

See also

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