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Misspelled is a chat spell-checker addon. Misspelled watches the chat messages you type, highlighting any misspellings and offering suggestions for any misspelled words it finds.

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I've included in the US & UK English dictionaries some Warcraft specific proper nouns, including the zone names, and all dungeon and raid boss names. Your friends and guild members are also automatically added, and shouldn't get flagged as misspelled words..Misspelled utilizes the HunSpell style, affix (prefix/suffix) compressed dictionaries. The same ones used in Chrome, Firefox, and OpenOffice. Misspelled provides suggestions based on words that phonetically sound like the misspelled word, along with providing suggestions based on common mistakes of spelling. While Misspelled can detect nearly the same number of individually correctly spelled words as OpenOffice, it's suggestion engine, is "somewhat" less complicated, than the HunSpell implementation.

Misspelled includes dictionaries for US-English, UK-English, French, German, Italian, Russian (experimental), and Spanish. The appropriate dictionary, for your game client locale, will auto-load, or you can manually choose what dictionary to use from Misspelled's Interface/Addons options page.

I'm attempting to localize the menus and configuration page. You can help by visiting: http://www.wowace.com/addons/misspelled/localization

Misspelled works with WIM (Wow Instant Messenger), and is compatible with: Prat, Skinner, and Chatter.

Usage note: Spell Checking is performed as you complete each word you've typed. The last word in the chat box, isn't spell checked until you type some form of word terminator, either a period, space, or some other word separating punctuation. Spell checking is very fast; but isn't performed needlessly, while a word is being typed.

Misspelled is compatible with Wow, Wow Classic/Wrath/Cata If you are having problems with Misspelled, please try updating or disabling all other chat addons you may be running.

Official Distribution Points
Curse: https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/misspelled
WowInterface: http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info13493-Misspelled.html

Donations accepted to: https://www.paypal.com

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_ForgeUser5892313
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Posted Oct 6, 2012
Oh lordy, i can't thank you enough for this, being self taught in English I often find myself unable to spell certain words correctly, grammar nazis are also giving me hell from time to time! Thanks so much for this addon, dear! Hopefully you won't let it die. :)

By the way, the size doesn't scare me, but I do have this one question: do things get CPU intensive while using the chat? When not on vent - I often type in PuGs during fights etc.

Thanks again for your work and be well!

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Posted Oct 8, 2012
The addon isn't very CPU intensive. Words are looked up, in the dictionary, after you hit space. The lookup happens very fast. If the word isn't found, it takes just a bit more to hunt and build a list of replacement suggestions. The app caches the last 10,000 misspelled words, so if you type the same sequence again, it doesn't have to work to calculate the list of suggested replacements.

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Posted Oct 22, 2012
Quote from nrpieper »

The addon isn't very CPU intensive. Words are looked up, in the dictionary, after you hit space. The lookup happens very fast. If the word isn't found, it takes just a bit more to hunt and build a list of replacement suggestions. The app caches the last 10,000 misspelled words, so if you type the same sequence again, it doesn't have to work to calculate the list of suggested replacements.

Thank you for your response, I have been using it along with ElvUI for quite some time now, it 'seems' to be working fine with it. The only problem I have is that loading times(reload uI etc.)are longer now, and I also got a LUA error at some point and I remember seeing "Misspelled" in there, unfortunately I didn't save it. Any chance that is needs an update for 5.0.5? Once again - thank you and I really hope that you continue to support this addon.

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Posted Aug 30, 2012
It actually works on 5.0.4! Yaay! Thank you!

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Posted Apr 30, 2012
Thankyou for this AddOn makes my RolePlay Adventures Quite Better since people can understand me now, Perhaps at somepoint you could implement a grammar checker as well.

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Posted Dec 26, 2011
hello .. how can i open the options in game

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Posted Dec 26, 2011
Open the games Interface/addons dialog. You'll see Misspelled in the list. Click it, to show the addons options, on the right.

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Posted Nov 29, 2011
Love this addon its great but I can not use it while doing a 25 man raid. It takes up an insaine amount of memory. Is there anyway to make this less of a memory whore. Like seriously it uses more memory than all of my other addons. Somewhere around 5-8mbs for such a simple addon. All of my other addons combined only take 12mbs, and thats with running elv ui, bigwigs, chocolate bar, vuhdo, cool repair, minutiea, tinydps and a few others small ones im sure Im missing. With Misspelled on it takes me up to 25-30mbs and in a 25 man raid that is just killer on the frame rate.

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Posted Nov 29, 2011
Please see comment 148: http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/misspelled?comment=148 Unless your PC or Mac is very constrained on memory, Misspelled's memory usage shouldn't be the cause of lower frame rate.

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Posted Nov 17, 2011
sir if you could make a version of this for rift you would be my hero

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Posted Nov 18, 2011
With a cursory look through the Rift API, it does appear possible to port this addon to Rift. Initially it didn't appear you could obtain the cursor position, in text input frames. That would have made it difficult to detect what word was being right-clicked upon. There may well be other limitations, with coloring highlighted text, or in intercepting the send message routines.

When other chat addons exists, for Rift, it'll be much easier to "borrow" knowledge gleaned from those addons efforts.

I personally do not play Rift. While I do have an interest in initially porting Misspelled, if I don't play the game, I have little chance of maintaining it for any length of time.

I'll be happy to offer any assistance I can, to anyone interested in attempting to create a Rift version of Misspelled.

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Posted Oct 17, 2011
I rarely post, but I felt it needed to be done here. WoW has been missing an addon like this for a very long time. You are a community hero.

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Posted Oct 17, 2011
Take my internet, my money, have my children, I think I love you.

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Posted Sep 28, 2011
Can you make it so this works on other things like the addon MyRolePlay ?

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Posted Oct 4, 2011
I assume you're referring to the character description box, in the MyRolePlay addon. Right now Misspelled doesn't work with multi-lined input boxes. It's been a goal to make Misspelled compatible of adding it's spell-checking ability to these type of input boxes, especially the in-game mailbox message input box. I haven't begun to tackle the changes needed.

It would be nice, if MisspelledLib existed, that allowed an addon developer to add spell-checking to any input box they choose. Maybe myself or someone will extend Misspelled into a generic library someday.

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Posted Aug 30, 2011
Date: 2011-08-29 21:35:11
ID: 1
Error occured in: Global
Count: 1
Message: ..\AddOns\Misspelled\Misspelled.lua line 1034:
bad argument #1 to 'pairs' (table expected, got nil)
Debug:
[C]: ?
[C]: ?
Misspelled\Misspelled.lua:1034: EditUserDict()
Misspelled\Misspelled.lua:1348:
Misspelled\Misspelled.lua:1346

This happened when I clicked the "Edit User Dictionary..." button inside the Interface options window.

I had no words of my own added to it just yet, it was a fresh install. I was just clicking the button to take a looksie. @(O.O)@ rofl

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Posted Aug 30, 2011
Looking into it now. Thanks for the error report.

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Posted May 12, 2011
Can we get an English (Canada) dictionary added?

Canadian spelling is different from US and UK spelling, so neither quite fits the job

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Posted May 13, 2011
Sure that's an easy one. The next rainy day, I have off, I'll code up the needed changes.

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Posted Apr 30, 2012
this would indeed be good news for us Canadians

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