Common misspelling

known-misspellingon by defaultJapanese / English

A common misspelling, such as "definately" or "seperate"

Example

Flagged

The two reports are seperate documents.

What chaff prints

1:21 "seperate" is a misspelling of "separate"

Fixed

The two reports are separate documents.

What chaff prints

no finding

How to fix

Correct the spelling. If the word is a name spelled that way on purpose, add it to names in chaff.yaml.

Why it matters

Some words are easy to misspell by ear or by habit ("definately", "seperate", "recieve"). A reader who notices one starts to doubt the rest of the document. The pairs of misspelling and spelling are in each language's lexicon, and chaff reports only the forms listed there. A form inside a longer word is not reported ("teh" in "Tehran").

What it does not flag

Misspellings not in the lexicon are not reported. Spellings that are both in use (British and American, judgement and judgment) are left to the consistency rules. A form inside a longer word ("teh" in "Tehran") and words listed under names in chaff.yaml are not reported.

Turning it off or relaxing it

Silence this one spot (in the document)

Relax it for the team (the reason is kept as a comment in chaff.yaml)

npx chaffjs relax known-misspelling --why "reason"

Turn it off for the team (chaff.yaml)

rules: known-misspelling: off

Technical details

Layer: L2
Status: stable
Severity: warning
Languages: Japanese and English
Suited to: blog, business, technical, legal, docs, academic, literature, speech

Levels

Set a level for this rule under rules in chaff.yaml. With nothing set, it runs at the level its genre gives it (see By genre below).

strict	error
normal	warning
relaxed	info

This rule has no limit to count to. A level sets how a finding is marked: relaxed keeps the finding and marks it a step lower.

By genre

Runs by default in: technical/spec, technical/readme, blog/tech, blog/essay, blog/owned-media, business/proposal, business/report, business/email, business/press-release, business/meeting-notes, legal/contract, legal/statute, legal/judgment, legal/patent, docs/manual, docs/faq, docs/glossary, academic/paper, literature/fiction, literature/essay, literature/poetry, literature/play, speech/address, speech/transcript

Genres

Message

"{matched}" is a misspelling of "{suggestion}"

Rewrite depth (chaff fix-plan --depth): light — words and sentences; the structure and the voice stay

This page is built from the rule's definition file:packages/chaff/rules/known-misspelling.yaml