Check spelling and typos only
AI finds every spelling error and typo in your writing without flagging style, grammar, or anything else.
Check spelling and typos only
River's Spelling & Typo Checker finds only spelling errors and typos in your writing. You paste your content, and the AI highlights misspellings, accidental typos, and wrong word errors without flagging style choices, grammar preferences, or anything subjective. This tool does one job well: catching embarrassing spelling mistakes before you publish. Whether you're sending an important email, publishing a blog post, or sharing marketing copy, this tool ensures you don't lose credibility to simple typos.
Unlike grammar checkers that flag hundreds of subjective issues, we focus exclusively on objective spelling errors. The AI identifies correctly spelled but wrong words (their vs they're), catches common typos and transpositions, recognizes context-appropriate word usage, respects proper nouns and brand names, and ignores style, punctuation, and grammar. You get a clean review focused only on the errors that actually matter for credibility: words that are objectively wrong or accidentally mistyped.
This tool is perfect for everyone before publishing anything, as a final check before hitting send, for catching typos that slip past during writing, or when you need simple spell-check without grammar noise. If you're confident in your writing style but want to catch embarrassing typos, this tool helps. Use it as your last step before publishing when you don't want grammar suggestions, just want to verify spelling is perfect so nothing undermines your credibility.
What Makes Typos Destroy Credibility
Spelling errors and typos destroy professional credibility disproportionately to their actual importance. Research shows readers judge content with typos as less trustworthy, less intelligent, and less careful, even when the ideas are sound. A single typo in a job application, client proposal, or published article creates doubt about your attention to detail and professionalism. Readers assume if you can't spell correctly, you probably cut corners elsewhere. Fair or not, typos have real consequences: lost job opportunities, reduced content credibility, damaged professional reputation, and decreased conversion rates for marketing copy.
Common typos fall into predictable categories. Transposition errors swap letters (form becomes from, casual becomes causal). Homophone errors use the correct-sounding but wrong word (their vs they're, your vs you're, affect vs effect). Missing or extra letters create non-words (manger instead of manager, completly instead of completely). Autocorrect errors substitute wrong but valid words (well vs we'll, pubic vs public). These mistakes are easy to make while typing fast and hard to catch during self-editing because our brains autocorrect while reading. That's why external tools catch typos we repeatedly miss.
To evaluate spelling checker quality, it must catch real errors without creating false positives. Bad spell checkers flag correct technical terms, proper nouns, or brand names as errors. They miss context-dependent mistakes (using 'there' when you meant 'their'). They overwhelm with style and grammar flags unrelated to spelling. Great spell checkers do one thing perfectly: identify actual spelling errors and typos you want to fix. This matters because false positives waste time and train you to ignore warnings. A focused spelling checker that catches real errors and ignores everything else is far more useful than comprehensive checkers that flag a hundred subjective issues.
What You Get
Every spelling error and typo highlighted in your document
Detection of wrong-word errors (their vs they're)
Recognition of properly spelled technical terms and names
No style, grammar, or punctuation flags, just spelling
Clean review focused only on objective errors
How It Works
- 1Paste your contentCopy your writing into the workspace (50-5000 words)
- 2AI checks spellingOur AI finds every spelling error and typo in 30 seconds
- 3Review flagged wordsSee what's misspelled or accidentally wrong, nothing else
- 4Fix and publishCorrect the typos and publish with confidence
Frequently Asked Questions
Will this flag technical terms or brand names as errors?
The AI is trained on technical vocabulary and common brand names, so it recognizes most specialized terms correctly. However, if you use very niche jargon or made-up product names, it might flag them. Review flagged words in context. If a technical term is flagged but you know it's correct, ignore the flag. The tool errs on the side of flagging potential errors rather than missing real typos. A few false positives on specialized terms beats missing actual mistakes in important content.
Does this catch wrong-word errors like their vs they're?
Yes. The AI understands context and catches common wrong-word errors where you use a correctly spelled but grammatically wrong word. Examples: their vs they're vs there, your vs you're, affect vs effect, its vs it's, to vs too, than vs then. These are among the most embarrassing typos because spell checkers that only check dictionary validity miss them. Our AI analyzes context to catch these errors that undermine credibility even though both words are spelled correctly. This is where AI-powered checking beats simple dictionary lookups.
What about British vs American spelling?
The AI recognizes both British and American spelling variants as correct (colour vs color, realise vs realize, centre vs center). It won't flag either as an error. However, be consistent within your document. Mixing British and American spelling looks sloppy even though both are technically correct. Choose one standard and stick with it. If you want to enforce one spelling variant, you'll need to manually check for consistency. The tool focuses on objective errors, not style consistency choices.
Will this find every typo or might some slip through?
No spelling checker catches 100% of errors, especially creative typos that form other valid words (pubic vs public, manger vs manager). The AI catches most common typos, transpositions, and wrong-word errors, but unusual mistakes might slip through. This is why human proofreading still matters for critical documents. Use this as your first pass to catch obvious errors quickly, then do a careful human read for anything high-stakes (proposals, published articles, client deliverables). Catching 95% of typos automatically still saves massive time compared to manual proofreading alone.
Why use this instead of my word processor's spell check?
Word processor spell check catches dictionary-invalid words but often misses context-dependent errors (their vs they're). It also flags tons of grammar and style issues unrelated to spelling, creating noise that makes you miss actual typos. This tool focuses exclusively on spelling and typos, giving you clean results without style opinions. It's perfect for final checks when you want to verify spelling without debating grammar rules or stylistic choices. Think of it as a focused, final-pass spell check without the distraction of hundreds of other flags.
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