Spelling

Silktide reads the visible text of your pages and documents and reports words that appear to be misspelled. Because no spellchecker can know every legitimate name and term, you review what it finds and either fix the word or approve it.

Findings are grouped by how confident Silktide is:

Likely spelling errors - words that are almost certainly wrong.
Possible spelling errors - words that may be wrong, but with less certainty.
Words from another language - correctly spelled, just not in the language the page declares.
Capitalization - the spelling is right but the case looks wrong, such as "silktide" for "Silktide".

Why this matters

Spelling mistakes are one of the fastest ways to lose a reader's trust. Studies of online commerce have repeatedly linked visible typos to lost sales, and for public bodies they undermine confidence in everything else the page says. They also hurt people using : a pronounces "goverment" exactly as written.

Mistakes concentrate where nobody rereads: image captions, footers, old news posts. Automated checking finds them at a scale no human proofreader can.

How to fix it

Correct genuine mistakes in your and republish.
words that are correct for you - product names, people, industry terms. Approving teaches Silktide not to report that word again. (For a deliberate misspelling, such as one inside a quote, ignore it instead so the word stays flagged elsewhere.)
Add recurring vocabulary to your spelling dictionary so it is accepted across every website in your account, in one or all languages.
If whole findings are in the wrong language, correct the page's language rather than the words - see below.

How Silktide tests this

Determine the languages each page is checked in: the website's configured languages, plus the page's own language when it comes from an Inspector override, a URL rule, or what the page declares about itself - see how languages work. When an override or a URL rule names another variant of one of the website's languages, such as British English on a US English website, the page is checked in that variant instead.
Extract the text people actually see, ignoring code, hidden elements, and any elements you have excluded from checking.
Check every word against dictionaries for those languages, your account dictionary, and previously approved words. A word is accepted if any of them contains it.
Classify anything unrecognized by confidence, as listed above.

AI spell check

Silktide's dictionaries are very large - millions of words across the languages we support, including common place names and company names - but the internet always invents new ones. When Silktide encounters words it does not already know, it can use AI to help decide whether they look like real vocabulary worth learning, or likely misspellings worth reporting. That reduces false positives you would otherwise have to approve by hand.

There are limits. If a page has too many potential misspellings, Silktide does not run AI on it. At that point the page is often in the wrong language, mostly broken, or not real text (for example binary or garbled content), and AI would waste effort without reliable answers. That also means some pages that do contain learnable words may skip AI validation until the overall signal looks healthier. Improving that balance is ongoing work.

Approving words and maintaining your spelling dictionary still matters: they apply everywhere and do not depend on AI.

Troubleshooting

Correct words are reported as misspelled

Usually the word is a name, brand, or technical term no general dictionary contains. Approve it, or add it to the spelling dictionary if it recurs. Dictionary changes take effect on the next scan.

Many words flagged "from another language"

The page's language probably doesn't match its content - for example a Spanish page inheriting a site-wide English setting. Correct the page language instead of approving words one by one, then retest the page - see how languages work. The distinction between variants like US, British, and Canadian English matters here too: on a US English website, a page with an override or URL rule for British English is checked as British English instead, so American spellings on it are reported.

Silktide has spelling dictionaries for most languages. When the page's language has none, the page is checked in the website's languages only.

A word looks fine to me

Check the exact spelling carefully - doubled letters and transposed characters are easy to read past, which is why they survive human proofreading.