The pertinence of suggestions for replacement of a misspelled word is of prime importance for a spell checker: users' productivity and comfort are much improved when the correct replacement appears more frequently in top positions in the suggestion list.

Comparative tests show that XMLmind Spell Checker is significantly ahead of other spell checkers in this respect.

Four dictionaries included: English/American, German, French, Spanish.

Tested with most European languages, including Russian and Greek.

Smart suggestions in any language, thanks to a simple and powerful system of hints.

Efficient switch between languages allows handling of multi-lingual documents.

The Dictionary Builder allow users to create compiled (i.e. compact and fast) dictionaries from any word-list.

It can also be used to modify existing dictionaries.

• Check/ignore case
• Check/ignore mixed-case words.
• Check/ignore words containing digits.
• Check/ignore duplicate words
• Check/ignore common punctuation errors
• Enable/disable automatic replacement
• Accept compound words (with hyphen)
• Accept prefixed words (with dictionary-defined prefixes like for example "anti" or "ex-").
• Check/ignore URLs
• Accept filenames with standard extensions (e.g. "mypage.html")
• Suggestion force: trade-off between speed and suggestion quality.

• Select current language (efficient switch between several languages)
• Select dictionary
• Management of personal dictionaries
• Possibility to ban words (then considered as unknown)
• Suggestion learning (when a correct replacement is not guessed, it is learned and proposed on the next occurrence of the same error).

Runs on any Java^TM platform: Windows®, Mac OS®, Unix, Linux. Tested on JRE 1.4, 1.5, 1.6.

Several levels of API allow one-line-of-code integrations as well as the most sophisticated applications.

• Pure look-up: over 200,000 words/second on a 700MHz Pentium® III (twice faster than some engines implemented in C).
• Suggestions search (actual usage): 1.5 to 4 times faster than competition, when tuned to a similar quality of suggestions.

Sharable and compact dictionaries (0.7 to 2.5Mb in memory).

Spell Dialog (using embeddable Spell Component), Options Dialog. Simplest integration: one line of code.

Real time checking during edition. Enabled with one line of code.