c# WPF spell checker for misspelled word strings.

Question

I am looking for ways to automatically fix a word if the word is miss spelled and seems to be a combination of two words. For example "considerationof" should be "consideration of". Any lead or any example will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Have you seen this? https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.controls.spellcheck(v=vs.110).aspx — Brad, Jun 21 '16 at 16:32
There is more than a certain degree of irony in this question. http://www.dictionary.com/browse/misspelled — PaulF, Jun 21 '16 at 16:46
Thanks Brad, I did see that while I was searching the web. Do you know how I would auto correct it? — inavnacorp, Jun 21 '16 at 17:38

Brad · Accepted Answer · 2016-06-21T18:14:56.790

Try this for iterating over your spelling mistakes:

TextBox tb = new TextBox();
tb.SpellCheck.IsEnabled = true;
tb.Text = @"I am looking for ways to automatically fix a word if the word is miss spelled and seems to be a combination of two words. For example ""considerationof"" should be ""consideration of"". Any lead or any example will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!";

var spellingErrorIndex = tb.Text.Length;
do
{

    var spellingError = tb.GetSpellingError(spellingErrorIndex);
    if (spellingError != null)
    {
        var suggestions = spellingError.Suggestions;    //suggests "consideration of"
        spellingError.Correct(suggestions.First());
    }

    spellingErrorIndex = tb.GetNextSpellingErrorCharacterIndex(spellingErrorIndex, LogicalDirection.Backward);
} while (spellingErrorIndex >= 0);

The value of tb.Text after this is run is

"I am looking for ways to automatically fix a word if the word is miss spelled and seems to be a combination of two words. For example \"consideration of\" should be \"consideration of\". Any lead or any example will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!"

It "auto-corrects" to the first suggestion. Whether that is ultimately what you want or not you'll have to decide.

It would probably be a bad idea to put this on a TextChanged event (you don't want it correcting words before they've finished beign typed). Maybe something like LostFocus is more appropriate.

c# WPF spell checker for misspelled word strings.

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