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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

-Nate

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tereesa
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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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Posted May 5, 2011
I think I have only commented on an addon once before but i had to comment on this one, you have made my IQ seem 40 points higher and have made socializing in the game easier. It's a shame I can't live without a spell-checker but I try to improve my vocabulary skills daily ;). I recommend you to everyone the first polite chance I get - this addon is pure awesome-sauce!

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Posted May 5, 2011
Big smile. I created Misspelled out of me own need. I love how it allows me to use those larger, harder to spell, words, with ease.
Thanks again for using and finding the addon helpful.

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Posted Apr 28, 2011
I love this addon, thank you for updating!
I want to say to the people being scared about the memory usage that this addon is nowhere as big as a lot of other addons like Lightheaded, Questhelper, Gatherer, Auctioneer, etc.
The Auctioneer addons for instance takes over 10 to 20 times as much meomory (in total) as this one does and it all works well for me.
Addons collecting data are the ones to keep eye on. Those will make the meomory usage grow over time.
Wowhead Looter, gatherers, dps-meters and especially gear-inspecting addons, etc. Those will make the game crash when staying in crowded areas for a while.
But playing the game with over 200MB of used addon memory is not crashing the game, I can tell from experience. And this addon is just using a very small portion of that and enabeling/disabeling never ever had any influence in my game experience.

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Posted Apr 26, 2011
Great addon with a great flaw, needs too much memory to run. As a side note is there a way to remove the other languages and leave just one ? and maybe that way it will need less memory to run ?

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Posted Apr 26, 2011
Misspelled only loads, into memory, the dictionary you have selected. That being said, you can edit the file Misspelled.toc, and remove the lines that point to the dictionaries, you are not using. This will only potentially speed up zoning in. It will not reduce the overall memory usage of the addon.

It's an opinion, I share with many other developers; Addon memory usage is not something you need to be concerned about. That is unless, and addon uses more and more memory as time goes on, without releasing any of it.

What needs to be focused on is the CPU usage profile of an addon. An addon that uses too many CPU cycles, can slow the frame rate, of the game significantly.

Missplled's memory usage is, usually, well under 10MB. That's nothing to be concerned about. I store large tables for the dictionaries, phonetic sounds of words, and additional tables that cache recent suggestion lookups, and correctly spelled words. It's a conscious choice to trade some additional memory usage, for the CPU cycles that would be used up, to calculate all this information on the fly, every time it was needed.

Open up your Windows Task Manager. The Wow.exe process can only use up to 2GB of memory, total. If it's no where near that, you don't need to be concerned about addon memory usage. I've found wow.exe will crash, and become unstable if the process memory usage exceeds much past 1.7GB

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Posted Apr 27, 2011
Thanks for the heads-up mate

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Posted Apr 14, 2011
LF Polish leanguage :)

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