Spell Checker Using Pyspellchecker Package

This story explains, what is pyspellchecker, and how to use it with SpaCy. The pyspellchecker is an open-source package that allows you to correct spelling.

What is pyspellchecker?

The pyspellchecker is an open-source package that allows you to correct spelling, as well as see candidate spellings for a misspelled word.

To install the package, you can use pip:

pip install pyspellchecker

First, we import the necessary packages,

Once installed, the pyspellchecker is straightforward to use. Note that even though we use “pyspellchecker” when installing via pip, we just type “spellchecker” in the package import statement.

Fig 1: Import Statements

And to view all the available directories, _dir _method can be used.

Fig 2: Invoking dir method

And the output is all available directories.

[‘_SpellChecker__edit_distance_alt’, ‘__class__’, ‘__contains__’, ‘__delattr__’, ‘__dir__’, ‘__doc__’, ‘__eq__’, ‘__format__’, ‘__ge__’, ‘__getattribute__’, ‘__getitem__’, ‘__gt__’, ‘__hash__’, ‘__init__’, ‘__init_subclass__’, ‘__le__’, ‘__lt__’, ‘__module__’, ‘__ne__’, ‘__new__’, ‘__reduce__’, ‘__reduce_ex__’, ‘__repr__’, ‘__setattr__’, ‘__sizeof__’, ‘__slots__’, ‘__str__’, ‘__subclasshook__’, ‘_case_sensitive’, ‘_check_if_should_check’, ‘_distance’, ‘_tokenizer’, ‘_word_frequency’, ‘candidates’, ‘correction’, ‘distance’, ‘edit_distance_1’, ‘edit_distance_2’, ‘export’, ‘known’, ‘split_words’, ‘unknown’, ‘word_frequency’, ‘word_probability’]

The next piece is to create a SpellChecker object, which we’ll term as “spell”.

Fig 3: Creating an object

And the text we are about to handle is immigrants in Toronto _and the string is stored in the variable docx._

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