How to Check Spelling in Python

1. Spell Checker With the autocorrect Library in Python
2. Spell Checker With the pyspellchecker Library in Python
3. Spell Checker With the textblob Library in Python

This tutorial will discuss the methods you can use to create a spell checker in Python.

Spell Checker With the autocorrect Library in Python

The autocorrect is an external library that can be used to develop a spell checker in Python. Since it is an external library, we have to download and install it before using it in our code. The command to install autocorrect module is given below.

pip install autocorrect

We can use the Speller class inside the autocorrect library and specify the language in the constructor. The following example code shows us how we can create a spell checker with the autocorrect module.

from autocorrect import Speller

spell = Speller(lang="en")

misspelled = ["scisors", "chemp", "celender", "berthday"]
for word in misspelled:
    print("original word: " + word)
    print("corrected word: " + spell(word))

Output:

original word: scisors
corrected word: scissors
original word: chemp
corrected word: champ
original word: celender
corrected word: calendar
original word: berthday
corrected word: birthday

In the code above, we developed a spell checker with the Speller class inside the autocorrect library. We created an instance spell of the Speller class and specified the English language inside the constructor. We passed the misspelled word inside the object just like we do with a normal function, and it returned the corrected word.

Spell Checker With the pyspellchecker Library in Python

The pyspellchecker is another external library that can be used in place of the autocorrect library to develop a spell checker in Python.

Since it is also an external library, we have to download and install it as well to use it in our code. The command to install the pyspellchecker library is given below.

pip install pyspellchecker

We can use the SpellChecker class inside the pyspellchecker library to predict the correct word. The correction() function inside the SpellChecker class takes the misspelled word as an input argument and returns the corrected word as a string.

The following program shows us how we can create a spell checker with the pyspellchecker library.

from spellchecker import SpellChecker

spell = SpellChecker()

misspelled = ["scisors", "chemp", "celender", "berthday"]
for word in misspelled:
    print("original word: " + word)
    print("corrected word: " + spell.correction(word))

Output:

original word: scisors
corrected word: scissors
original word: chemp
corrected word: cheap
original word: celender
corrected word: calender
original word: berthday
corrected word: birthday

We developed a spell checker with the SpellChecker class inside the spellchecker module in the code above. We created an instance spell of the SpellChecker class, and the default language is English. We passed the misspelled word inside the correction() function of the spell object, returning the corrected word.

Spell Checker With the textblob Library in Python

To develop a Python spell checker, we can also use the textblob library. The textblob is used for processing textual data. It is an external library, and we need to install it with the following command.

pip install textblob

The correct() function inside the textblob library return the correction for an incorrect word. The following example program shows us how to create a spell checker program using Python’s textblob library.

from textblob import TextBlob

misspelled = ["scisors", "chemp", "celender", "berthday"]
for word in misspelled:
    print("original word: " + word)
    spell = TextBlob(word)
    print("corrected word: " + str(spell.correct()))

Output:

original word: scisors
corrected word: scissors
original word: chemp
corrected word: cheap
original word: celender
corrected word: slender
original word: berthday
corrected word: birthday

In the code above, we developed a spell checker with the TextBlob class inside the textblob library. We created an instance spell of the TextBlob class and passed the word inside the constructor; the default language is English. We then used the correct() function to display the suitable spelling for that particular word.