Google Chrome Browser Gets Smarter Spell Check

Google's Chrome browser wants to double check your grammar and spelling.

The company announced this week it is bringing improved spell checking to Chrome with its "Ask Google for suggestions" feature

Chrome's spell check can suggest, for example, when you're incorrectly using certain words — such as "affect" vs. "effect" — and have even misspelled names (e.g. "Steven Colbert" instead of "Stephen").

The feature is powered by the same tech behind Google search and includes grammar checking, proper nouns, homonyms and context-sensitive spell checking in English.

"We’ve refreshed the dictionaries for all languages, and users who speak Korean, Tamil, or Albanian will appreciate that we’ve added support for those languages, too," Google said via its official Chrome blog. "In addition, users who add custom words to the dictionary can now sync their settings to bring those changes to all the devices where they use Chrome." Read more...