[Tip] How to Disable Google Chrome Built-in Spell Checker

This tutorial has been made as per visitors request. A few people asked us how to disable Google Chrome web browser’s built-in spell-checker feature? So this tutorial will help you in turning off the spell-checker functionality in Chrome browser.

Google Chrome spell checker feature automatically checks for spelling mistakes as soon as the user starts typing in text box and other form fields in a web page. If you don’t like this functionality, you can disable it with the help of this article.

Here are step-by-step methods to turn off Chrome spell-checker:

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Disable Spell Checker in New Versions of Google Chrome:

1. Open Google Chrome and click on 3-dots Main Menu button present at the end of the toolbar. Now select Settings menu item.

2. It’ll open Chrome Settings page. In left-side pane, click on “Advanced” tab.

3. Now click on “Languages” section in left-side pane.

In right-side pane, you’ll get a toggle button to turn on/off the “Spell Check” option.

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To disable Spell Check feature in Chrome, set the toggle button given next to Spell Check to OFF.

Disable Spell Checker in Older Versions of Google Chrome:

1. Open Google Chrome and click on Settings button present at the end of the toolbar. Now select Settings menu item.

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2. Click on “Show advanced settings…” link given at the bottom of Settings page.

3. Now scroll down a little and click on “Languages and spell-checker settings…” button present in “Languages” section.

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4. It’ll open a new window where you’ll see a checkbox “Enable spell checking“. Uncheck the option and click on OK button.

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5. That’s it. It’ll turn spell-check feature off.

Published in: Google Chrome, Troubleshooting Guides

About the author: Vishal Gupta (also known as VG) has been awarded with Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) award. He holds Masters degree in Computer Applications (MCA). He has written several tech articles for popular newspapers and magazines and has also appeared in tech shows on various TV channels.

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  1. I turned off spell check in Google Chromes options but it still underlines text in red.

    How do I resolve this?

  2. In latest Chromium Version 25.0.1330.0 (168471) I have a weird bug, it’s checking my spelling though I already disabled it several times, looks like it’s only checking other languages than English, and then it checks email addresses too.

    Is there any temporary solution for this? Maybe a command switch to shortcut or something?

  3. The wrench is now … well, people are calling it a “hot dog” icon (googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/08/beta-channel-update_23.html), but I always recognized it as representing a list of things. A stack of three horizontal bars with rounded ends.

  4. PS to previous comment: Except now, in step 3, it just says “language settings”. No spell checker settings. No way to turn it off. Screw that, I’m going back to Firefox.

  5. Yeah, with the actual version, if You find out how to disable the thingy, this would be most appreciated!!

  6. I’m with Thnidu. Forced spell-checking is a nuisance, and very distracting. Having no ability to turn it off is a deal-breaker. The only reason I even downloaded chrome is because the google+ content doesn’t work with firefox. I see a quick flash of the page, then just a blank screen. Chrome shows the content just fine though.

    Hmm…. Forced into google+, now forced into chrome, and thereby forced into spell checking…. Sounds like a microsloth-style maneuver to me.

  7. Like everybody else has found, Unchecking Enable Spell Check does Absolutly Nothing!

  8. Adding my voice to those who want to disable spell checking and find it very annoying. I hope Google will hear this.

  9. I keep disabling the spell check option, it keeps reactivating all by itself! Maddening. I’m a bilingual language professional and I don’t need every word I type in English to be marked as a mistake because my default language is French.

  10. Same here. Now the little box for removing the spellcheck is gone! Its even underlining correctly spelled words! It just underlined ALL of this comment! (except for box, ALL, of) Possibly a clash of extensions somewhere.

  11. GOT IT!!! this worked, I did both suggestions.

    productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/DvrmjSptjRk

  12. You can disable it… and it’ll turn itself back on every 2-3 days, insulting your intelligence and distracting you as you type over and over and over.

    Google has always been terrible at giving you choice, much less remembering it.

  13. This answer is not relevant. It is not clear what version issue this was addressing but there appears to be no way to disable google from believing you have spelled a search term wrong.

  14. This is the wrong solution to this problem, advanced setting does not take you to a language and spell checker settings. So there is no solution to this problem except dropping Google Chrome and changing browsers.

  15. Hello. Thank you very much. This was getting so annoying, I tried this Guide every single time as I used Google Chrome and that button on the bottom never appeared to me, so I decided to download Firefox and just use Firefox all the time. But today I was wondering about Google Chrome, so I opened Google Chrome and went to the official Google Chrome website and went to the Help site, there I found something I never knew about Google Chrome, because I thought Google Chrome would do it automatically.

    On Google Chromes Help site said: “It is recommended that you search for updates for Google Chrome, because Google don’t do that automatically.

    – Go to the Menu and then mouse over Help and click on “about Google Chrome”.

    Google Chrome will search for updates automatically, as you go there”

    Something like that, it said there. And I made that and I had the version (I can’t remember the entire number of the version, just the two numbers of it, though)
    49. (behind that dot, there were many numbers that I can’t remember.)

    Then I had to restart Google Chrome. After that I realized that I have version: 50.0.2661.75
    I searched on Google Chrome “How to turn off autocorrect in Google Chrome” and I found this helpful Guide (First I thought it wouldn’t help me though)

    I went on Menu > Settings > “Show more advanced settings” > Languages > and I saw that button that I never saw it in real life, just in images from websites.

    So, now I can use Google Chrome, but I kinda like both of the browsers: Google Chrome and Firefox. I will use them both 🙂

    Thanks, now I can write without seeing underlining text, this makes me want to write even more 🙂

    As I read the comments, I am not the unique person with that problem.

  16. It keeps changing my last name from Landfear to Landfair, I have gotten points knocked off because of this

  17. Hello,

    I have Google Chrome, but on one PC the Spell Check is ‘disabled’ and there is NO way to ‘enable’ or change it visible?? Please, what do we do to fix this.

    thanks, Xavier

  18. I have the same problem as Xavier. Disabled and no box to check or uncheck it. I think it might be a Windows 10 thing, because the rich text word pad autocorrect isn’t working either, even though it says it’s on in the settings.

  19. This is now out of date. Gmail is sticking this feature under settings/general and scroll down to “autocorrect”. Thanks for the tutorial. Helped point me in the right direction at least.

  20. Still, in version 94, it does that. The spellcheck is UNCHECKED in the settings, but it sometimes underlines words. Mostly when an unusual name or a stage name for a person.

  21. Currently, in version 98, the option is unchecked, almost constantly Chrome is underlining words. So, how about posting a working solution for this?

  22. ^^ Its working here in latest version of Chrome. I have updated the article with new instructions applicable to newer versions of Chrome.

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