In the age of spell checkers, it’s hard to imagine that spelling errors would make the most common error list, but they do. First, it’s important to remember to run the spell checker when you’re revising a paper. The spell checker won’t necessarily catch everything, but it’s a good place to start.
We’ve already covered some errors that can slip by the spell check in our Wrong Word section. In addition to possibly creating wrong-word errors, spell checkers also miss misspelled words like names and other proper nouns, as illustrated in the following example:
El corrector ortográfico pasó por alto estos errores. Aquí está la versión corregida de la frase:
Por lo tanto, asegúrese de utilizar el corrector ortográfico, pero, a continuación, no olvide revisar dos y tres veces su escritura. Los correctores ortográficos no lo captan todo.