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NAME
suggest - suggest spelling corrections
SYNOPSIS
suggest [ -ddictionary ] [ -s ] [ words ... ]
DESCRIPTION
Suggest prints corrected spellings for the words supplied on
the command line (or standard input if no args given). It
attempts to do this by mutilating its input words and look-
ing these up in a dictionary, printing the words which sound
similar to those given.
-d dict
An alternative dictionary file (the default is
/lib/words) may be specified.
-s
Some basic statistics on suggest's run are printed on
exit if the -s option is present.
EXAMPLE
cpu; spell document.ms | suggest
args → Ares Argus Fargo Kris Margo
cmd → cad cod cud amid cam came camp
SOURCE
/sys/src/cmd/suggest.c
BUGS
the soundex code assumes English pronunciation so only sub-
stituting the dictionary is not really sufficient for spel-
ling correction of languages other than English.