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This page describes the Google Search Appliance feature that checks the spelling of search queries and offers spelling suggestions.

The spell checker uses data from the documents crawled by the Google Search Appliance to make spelling suggestions. Periodically, the spell server explores your index to update its database. The spell server updates are automatic, so no configuration is required.

A single spelling suggestion is returned with the results for queries when the spell checker detects a possible spelling suggestion. Spelling suggestions are automatically enabled by default. You can choose to not display the suggested spelling field in the XSLT Stylesheet for a front end.

The spell checker is context sensitive. For example, if a query is for gail divers, the phrase gail devers is suggested as an alternative query. However, scuba divers would not return an alternate query suggestion.

Note: The example is specific to the google.com spell checker. Your spell checker may perform differently.

When using daterange or inmeta queries, spelling suggestions are not returned. To view spelling suggestions, use the requiredfields parameter instead of inmeta.

The spell checker supports US English, Brazilian Portuguese, French, Italian, German, and Spanish. Support for these languages is provided by the built-in search appliance language bundle. Google occasionally provides new language bundles that offer support for spelling for different sets of languages. For information about installing a language bundle, see the help page for Serving > Language Bundles.

The spell checker cannot be manually edited.

For More Information

For more information on daterange or inmeta queries, see "Search Protocol Reference," which is linked to the Google Search Appliance help center.