How to Disable Google Chrome Built-in Spell Checker?

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This tutorial has been made as per visitors request. A few people asked us how to disable Chrome's built-in spell-checker? So this tutorial will help you in disabling the built-in spell-checker.

Here is a step-by-step method to disable Chrome spell-checker:

1. Open Google Chrome and click on the Wrench icon. Now select Options menuitem.

2. Go to "Under the Hood" section and click on "Languages and spell-checker settings..." button in "Web Content" section.

3. It'll open a new window where you'll see a checkbox "Enable spell checking". Disable it and you have done.

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Gato

this tutorial's really helpful
ranMa

Thanks a lot!

It's incredible that we must do this trick to disable the spell checker...
Jussi

Thanks!
Viktor

thanks muchly! However good the googlers are, they're mainly American - so what can you expect! The RotW doesnt exist for them!
Jacques

Thanks very much! exactly what I needed. Clearly laid out.
Jeff

Nice work, but I have a related question. Does Chrome have a way to suggest the correct spelling like Firefox does? If it does, it's not working on my version and I'd like to know how to turn that on. Right now I only get the red squiggly lines but no suggestions. I need that because that's how I spell 3/4 of my words Thanks!
hildigunnur

It would be sooo easy, just to have a language 'none', since of course Chrome won't support all the worlds languages. :(
MadMolecule

I'm not sure if I've unknowingly updated to a newer version of Chrome, but in Version 0.4.154.29, there's a check box for "Check spelling" right above "Spell-Checker language" in the languages tab. Uncheck it, and the spell-checking stops.
VG

^^ Yep. The new versions provide the option to disable spell-checker. Updated the above tutorial. :)
Lucy

Thanks - this has been driving me crazy for ages.