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Another excellent utility is the "spell"
utility that allows a reasonable degree of spell checking. The utility
uses the dictionary provided by UNIX but may also consider your
own personal dictionary file for personalized spell checking.
Consider the following example in which "writing" is spelled
as "qriting" on the first line of the letter body:
![[spell Example]](Images/spell.gif)
As you would expect, the "spell" utility comes with
several useful options. The more common ones are listed below
| Option |
Explanation |
| -b |
Uses British spellings |
| -v |
Shows words not literally in the dictionary as well as a list of possible
correct spellings |
| -x |
Displays possible word stems for each word checked |
| +user_dictionary_file |
Defines the location of a user dictionary file to supplement the UNIX
dictionary |
The most important option of course is the user
defined dictionary file. Most likely, you will want to create your own
dictionary with your own word list. This file should simply contain a list
of words (one word per line). If spell does not find the word in the UNIX
dictionary, it will look at your dictionary file as well. Thus, in the next
example, you see that though the UNIX dictionary does not recognize certain
HTML commands, "spell" accepts them because they are defined in my own
dictionary.
![[spell and dictionary Example]](Images/spell_dict.gif)
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