Spellchecking

1. Place the caret at a word highlighted by the Typo inspection.

2. Press AltEnter or click to the left of the caret to show the available actions.

3. Select one of the suggested ways to fix the spelling.

In string literals and comments, only the spelling of this particular word at caret changes. For code identifiers, such as variables, functions, classes, and other symbols, the inspection also suggests changing all occurrences via the Rename refactoring.

If a detected typo is actually a valid word, you can add it to a user-defined dictionary that extends built-in dictionaries.

1. Place the caret at a word highlighted by the Typo inspection.

2. Press AltEnter or click to the left of the caret to show the available actions.

3. Select Save to dictionary to add the word to the user's dictionary and do not report it in the future.

   If you have added the word by mistake, press Ctrl0Z to remove it from the dictionary.

By default, PyCharm saves words to the global application-level dictionary. You can choose to save words to the project-level dictionary if the spelling is correct only for this particular project or should be shared with the team working on that project. For more information, refer to Select the default dictionary for saving words.

You can run the Typo inspection on your entire project or a set of files.

1. Press CtrlAltShift0I or go to Code | Analyze Code | Run Inspection by Name in the main menu.

2. In the Enter inspection name popup, find and select the Typo inspection.

3. In the Run 'Typo' dialog, select the scope in which you want to run the inspection, and other options, such as a file mask filter. Then click OK.

PyCharm will run the Typo inspection on all files in the selected scope and show all found typos in a separate tab of the Problems tool window.

By default, the Typo inspection checks code identifiers, string literals, and comments in all scopes.

1. Press CtrlAlt0S to open settings and then select Editor | Inspections.

2. Expand the Proofreading node and click Typo in the central pane.

3. In the right pane, configure the Typo inspection:

   Severity

   Specify the severity level and the scope in which to apply this level.

   For example, if you want typos to stand out more, select Error or Warning to highlight typos similar to syntax errors or warnings in your code.

   Options

   Specify the type of content to check:

   • Process code: check code identifiers .

   • Process literals: check text inside string literals.

   • Process comments: check text inside comments.

Like with any other inspection, you can suppress the Typo inspection for specific files and code elements.

1. Place the caret at a word highlighted by the Typo inspection.

2. Click or press AltEnter to show the available intention actions.

3. On one of the suggested fixes, press the right arrow key or click and select Suppress for class or another relevant suppress action.

   

Depending on the language and code element, this adds a special annotation or comment that tells the editor to suppress the relevant inspection in the corresponding scope. For example, in case of Python, suppressing the Typo inspection for a class adds the following annotation before the class declaration:

# noinspection SpellCheckingInspection

This suppresses all spelling checks within the class scope.

For more information, refer to Suppress inspections.