A user can search for a (misspelled) word or for single or clusters of letters.
One student noticed that, in the course of a single lecture, she had misspelled the same word in five different ways.
Phonemes with context sensitive spellings are misspelled more often than phonemes with entirely consistent spellings, but not as often as phonemes with word-specific spellings.
For research purposes, we correct misspelled words by hand.
The optimum spelling-checker reports a 'miss' if and only if the word is actually misspelled.
And yet the calligraphic words are often misspelled.
Thus, as already discussed, we do not consider the context in which a word (valid or misspelled) occurs in since spelling checkers have no contextual knowledge.
Repeatedly encountering misspelled names, missing end notes, and egregious grammatical and punctuation errors distracts from the reader's ability to focus on the substantive contributions of this work.
