# Check your spelling!

It's easy to make a mistake in spelling when writing stuff online and worse - when writing code 🧑‍💻👩‍💻👨‍💻 to build software. It's especially important to write code with less or 0 spelling mistakes when others are also going to read your code - which is most probably the case, either now or in the near or far future

Spelling mistakes can cause problems for people to search through code using their search 🔍🔎🔦👀 features like `Command` + `F` or `Ctrl` + `F` in their text editor / IDE. Of course spelling mistakes are NOT a problem when you use modern tools ⚒️ 🧰 🛠️ to search through code using `Find References` and similar features of the text editor / IDE which understand the language and do search 🔍🔦🔎👀

I personally feel it's better to use words with less or 0 spelling mistakes, especially in source code

I personally use [Code Spell Checker VS Code Extension](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=streetsidesoftware.code-spell-checker) in my [Visual Studio Code](https://code.visualstudio.com/). It's developed by [https://streetsidesoftware.com/](https://streetsidesoftware.com/) . They have published a lot of Open Source VS Code Extensions - [https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/publishers/streetsidesoftware](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/publishers/streetsidesoftware)

Street Side Software has created a lot of Open Source software, which you can find at [https://github.com/streetsidesoftware](https://github.com/streetsidesoftware)

CSpell is their main project I think - [https://github.com/streetsidesoftware/cspell](https://github.com/streetsidesoftware/cspell) , [https://cspell.org/](https://cspell.org/)

And there are lot of projects around the CSpell ecosystem, like the Code Spell Checker VS Code Extension and then there are more - [https://github.com/streetsidesoftware/cspell-dicts](https://github.com/streetsidesoftware/cspell-dicts) , [https://github.com/streetsidesoftware/vscode-cspell-dict-extensions](https://github.com/streetsidesoftware/vscode-cspell-dict-extensions) , [https://github.com/streetsidesoftware/cspell-action](https://github.com/streetsidesoftware/cspell-action) , [https://github.com/streetsidesoftware/cspell-cli](https://github.com/streetsidesoftware/cspell-cli)

They have dictionaries for various Spoken Languages and also for various Programming Languages and for many things Programming related - for example, a dictionary for AWS - [https://github.com/streetsidesoftware/cspell-dicts/tree/main/dictionaries/aws](https://github.com/streetsidesoftware/cspell-dicts/tree/main/dictionaries/aws) , a dictionary for Docker - [https://github.com/streetsidesoftware/cspell-dicts/tree/main/dictionaries/docker](https://github.com/streetsidesoftware/cspell-dicts/tree/main/dictionaries/docker) , a dictionary for Google Cloud - [https://github.com/streetsidesoftware/cspell-dicts/tree/main/dictionaries/google](https://github.com/streetsidesoftware/cspell-dicts/tree/main/dictionaries/google) , a dictionary for Kubernetes - [https://github.com/streetsidesoftware/cspell-dicts/tree/main/dictionaries/k8s](https://github.com/streetsidesoftware/cspell-dicts/tree/main/dictionaries/k8s) . They have dictionaries for other stuff too, like specialized dictionaries for some things - a dictionary for company names - [https://github.com/streetsidesoftware/cspell-dicts/tree/main/dictionaries/companies](https://github.com/streetsidesoftware/cspell-dicts/tree/main/dictionaries/companies) , a dictionary for crypto currencies - [https://github.com/streetsidesoftware/cspell-dicts/tree/main/dictionaries/cryptocurrencies](https://github.com/streetsidesoftware/cspell-dicts/tree/main/dictionaries/cryptocurrencies) and more!

You can find all the dictionaries that are available for use in [https://github.com/streetsidesoftware/cspell-dicts](https://github.com/streetsidesoftware/cspell-dicts) , the dictionaries are well documented :)

I'm already using Code Spell Checker Extension for VS Code already and it's great 😌😊👍. I recommend you to start using it or something similar to it that can help you make less spelling mistakes in your software project source code or even documentation / docs