Website spell checker
A spell checker in your editor watches the words as you type them. A website spell checker has a harder job: the misspelling already shipped, it is sitting on a page you last opened months ago, and a dictionary check can read it as correct. Verant crawls your published site, spell-checks every page a visitor actually loads, and catches both — the genuine typo and the placeholder text a plain spell checker never questions.
Last reviewed: 2026-06-21
Where typing-box spell checkers stop
The spell checker built into your word processor, browser, or writing extension underlines a word the moment you mistype it. That is the right tool while you are drafting. But it only ever sees the text in the active field — the document open on your screen, the comment box, the email. Once the copy is published, it is out of that tool’s reach: nothing re-checks the words after they render on the live URL.
So the misspellings that survive are the ones nobody is actively typing anymore. The product blurb a teammate pasted in two quarters ago. The footer line copied across forty templated pages, each carrying the same dropped letter. The old announcement post that still ranks. A typing-box checker cannot reach any of them, because nobody is in the box.
A website spell checker closes that gap by working from the published page instead of the input field. Verant renders each public URL the way a browser does, reads the visible words, and checks the spelling of copy that no editor has had open in a long time.
The placeholder a dictionary check cannot catch
Here is the trap a plain spell checker walks straight past: "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet" is, by the dictionary, not a single misspelling. Neither is "Your headline goes here", "Sample product description", or "Insert subtitle". The words are spelled fine — they are just the wrong words, template defaults that were supposed to be replaced before launch. A spelling pass that only compares against a dictionary gives all of them a clean bill of health.
Verant treats leftover placeholder copy as its own kind of finding. When it sees lorem-ipsum, a "your text here" stub, a "Hello world!" demo post, or an untouched theme default still live on a page, it flags it — not as a misspelled word, but as template copy that shipped by accident. The quoted text is your exact text, and the flag suggests replacing the stub rather than auto-rewriting it.
That is the difference between checking that words are spelled correctly and checking that the right words are on the page. A site can pass every dictionary check and still greet visitors with "Lorem ipsum" in the hero.
Spelling first, the rest of the pass included
Spelling is the reason most people reach for this page, so it is what Verant leads with: misspellings and typos across every crawled URL, not just the one page you happen to be editing. A full-site crawl follows your links and spell-checks every public page in one run, up to 500 pages on the top plan, or you can check a single URL on its own.
The same pass that catches spelling also reads for grammar, punctuation, awkward style, and clarity, because a misspelling is rarely the only thing wrong on a neglected page. You get the spelling findings front and center and the rest alongside them — one crawl, one list, no separate tools to run.
What it will not do is invent a private dictionary or a brand-terms database to match against. Verant spell-checks against standard English; it does not learn your product names as "correct" or enforce a house style guide. It checks how the copy reads, not whether it matches a glossary you maintain.
What the spell check covers
- ✓Spelling — misspellings and typos on every crawled page, including the long-tail ones no one re-reads.
- ✓Placeholder — leftover template copy a dictionary check passes: "Lorem ipsum", "your text here", "Hello world!", sample product blurbs, and untouched theme defaults.
- ✓Grammar — agreement, tense, and sentence-structure errors in the visible copy, alongside the spelling pass.
- ✓Punctuation — missing, doubled, or misused punctuation.
- ✓Style — awkward, inconsistent, or clumsy phrasing flagged for a closer look.
- ✓Clarity — sentences that are hard to read or ambiguous to a visitor.
What it is not
- It is not a custom dictionary you train — it spell-checks against standard English, not a glossary of your product names.
- It does not check links — no broken-link, redirect, or link-validation auditing.
- It does not fact-check — it checks how copy reads, not whether a claim is true.
- It does not audit accessibility, SEO metadata, or HTML validity — it checks written copy, not WCAG, meta tags, or markup.
How it differs from a typing-box spell checker
| Website proofreading (Verant) | Browser & editor spell checkers | |
|---|---|---|
| What it reads | The published page, fully rendered — the words a visitor loads | The text in the active field you are typing into right now |
| Coverage | Every public page in one crawl, including pages no one has opened in months | Only the document, comment, or field currently in focus |
| Placeholder copy | Flags "Lorem ipsum" and template stubs as copy that should not be live | Reads "Lorem ipsum" as correctly spelled and passes it silently |
| When it runs | After publish, against what actually shipped to the URL | While you draft — and never again once the page is live |
| Trust in the result | A second different-vendor agent refutes each fix before you see it | Underlines a word and leaves the call entirely to you |
How verification works
Most proofreading agents show you every suggestion and make you sort the good from the bad. Verant runs an adversarial second pass — Claude Sonnet proofreads, then GPT-5 tries to break each correction. What survives is what we show you. Verbatim is sacred: every flag quotes your exact text; we never auto-apply fixes.
Explore Verant
- Website grammar checker Beyond spelling — check the grammar of your live site after the CMS renders it.
- Website proofreading software The full proofreading pass — what Verant catches across your whole published site.
- Spell-check your platform Webflow, WordPress, Shopify, Squarespace, Framer, and docs — pick your stack.
Related reading: the full website proofreading pass, website grammar checker, spell-check a Shopify store, how this differs from Grammarly, and transparent pricing.
Frequently asked questions
What is a website spell checker?
It is a tool that spell-checks the published pages of your live website — the words a visitor actually reads after the page renders — instead of the text in the box you are typing into. Verant crawls your site and checks the spelling of every public page, including ones no editor has opened in months.
How is this different from my browser or editor spell checker?
A browser or editor spell checker only sees the field you are actively typing in, and it stops once the copy is published. Verant works from the published URL: it renders each page and checks the spelling of copy that already shipped, across your whole site, not just the document on your screen.
Will it catch placeholder text like "Lorem ipsum"?
Yes — and this is the main thing a plain spell checker misses. "Lorem ipsum", "your text here", "Hello world!", and sample product blurbs are all spelled correctly by the dictionary, so a spelling-only check passes them. Verant flags leftover placeholder copy as template text that should not be live, quoting your exact text.
Does it only check spelling?
Spelling leads, but the same crawl also reads for grammar, punctuation, style, and clarity, so you catch the rest of what is wrong on a neglected page in the same run. It does not check links, facts, accessibility, or SEO — it checks written copy only.
Can I spell-check my entire site at once?
Yes. A full-site crawl follows your links and spell-checks every public page in one run, up to 500 pages per crawl on the top plan. You can also check a single URL on its own. Plans are self-serve from $19/mo, with a free trial and no card required.