Spell Checker for Python

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I am creating an application that can perform spell checks (replaces an incorrectly spelled word with the correct one). I am using the Enchant library on Python 2.7, PyEnchant, and the NLTK library for this task.
The below code is a class that handles the correction/replacement.

from nltk.metrics import edit_distance

class SpellingReplacer:
    def __init__(self, dict_name='en_GB', max_dist=2):
        self.spell_dict = enchant.Dict(dict_name)
        self.max_dist = 2

    def replace(self, word):
        if self.spell_dict.check(word):
            return word
        suggestions = self.spell_dict.suggest(word)

        if suggestions and edit_distance(word, suggestions[0]) <= self.max_dist:
            return suggestions[0]
        else:
            return word

I wrote this function that takes in a list of words and executes replace() on each word and then returns a list of those words.

def spell_check(word_list):
    checked_list = []
    for item in word_list:
        replacer = SpellingReplacer()
        r = replacer.replace(item)
        checked_list.append(r)
    return checked_list

>>> word_list = ['car', 'colour']
>>> spell_check(words)
['car', 'color']

Is there any better way to do this? I want something like, what google does.

Apr 25, 2022 in Python by Kichu
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1 answer to this question.

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This function, in particular, has the ideas that you now need to make your spell checker more sophisticated: splitting, deleting, transposing, and inserting the irregular words to 'correct' them.

def edits1(word):

   splits = [(word[:i], word[i:]) for i in range(len(word) + 1)]

   deletes = [a + b[1:] for a, b in splits if b]

   transposes = [a + b[1] + b[0] + b[2:] for a, b in splits if len(b)>1]

   replaces = [a + c + b[1:] for a, b in splits for c in alphabet if b]

   inserts = [a + c + b for a, b in splits for c in alphabet]

   return set(deletes + transposes + replaces + inserts)

Follow this post by Peter Norvig for a complete guide on the spell checker.

answered Apr 28, 2022 by narikkadan
• 63,420 points

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