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Check and correct spelling of word (spell-word).
Check and correct spelling of each word in the buffer.
Check and correct spelling of each word in the region.
Check spelling of specified word.
To check the spelling of the word before point, and optionally correct
it, use the command M-$ (spell-word). This command runs an
inferior process containing the spell program to see whether the
word is correct English. If it is not, it asks you to edit the word (in
the minibuffer) into a corrected spelling, and then performs a
query-replace to substitute the corrected spelling for the old
one throughout the buffer.
If you exit the minibuffer without altering the original spelling, it
means you do not want to do anything to that word. In that case, the
query-replace is not done.
M-x spell-buffer checks each word in the buffer the same way that
spell-word does, doing a query-replace for
every incorrect word if appropriate.
M-x spell-region is similar to spell-buffer but operates
only on the region, not the entire buffer.
M-x spell-string reads a string as an argument and checks whether that is a correctly spelled English word. It prints a message giving the answer in the echo area.