Korean Spelling Helper
Flags spacing, spelling and particle mistakes in Korean text and explains the rule behind each one.
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- Spelling
오랫만오랜만오랜만 is 오래간만 contracted, so it has no ㅅ. 오랫동안 does take one (오래 + 동안, with a 사이시옷), which is why the two are easy to cross.
spelling.oraenman - Spelling
몇일며칠며칠 is the only standard spelling, for "how many days" and "what day of the month" alike. 한글 맞춤법 제27항 [붙임 2] lists it among the words whose origin is not transparent and which are therefore written as they sound.
spelling.myeochil - Loanwords
메세지는메시지는The spelling the 외래어 표기법 and the 표준국어대사전 give for this loanword. A brand or product name may deliberately keep another spelling — judge those yourself.
loanword.standard - Spacing
할수 없할 수 없수 in 할 수 있다 is a dependent noun and takes a space on both sides (한글 맞춤법 제42항); the particle after it attaches: 할 수밖에, 할 수도. -ㄹ수록, by contrast, is an ending and is written solid.
spacing.su - Verb forms
할께할게한글 맞춤법 제53항: the endings -ㄹ게, -ㄹ걸 and -ㄹ수록 are written with the plain consonant, even though it is pronounced tense after ㄹ. Only the question endings its 다만 lists take the 된소리: -(으)ㄹ까, -(으)ㄹ꼬, -(스)ㅂ니까, -(으)리까, -(으)ㄹ쏘냐.
conjugation.lge - Verb forms
바꼈바뀌었ㅟ + 어 does not contract in standard spelling: 사귀어, 사귀었다, 바뀌어, 바뀌었다. 사겨 and 바껴 are the spoken contraction, for which Hangul has no letter.
conjugation.wi-eo - Verb forms
어떻어떡어떡해 is 어떻게 해 contracted, and the contraction is written with ㄱ. 어떻- survives only before an ending that starts with a consonant: 어떻게, 어떻다, 어떻든.
spelling.eotteokhae - Verb forms
않되안 되안 is the adverb (아니) and stands before a verb with a space: 안 하다, 안 되다, 안 먹어. 않- is the stem of 않다 (아니하다) and needs an ending of its own: 하지 않다, 않고, 않아요. 않하다 fuses two stems; 하지 안다 leaves 안 with nothing to stand in front of.
conjugation.an-anh - Spelling
바램바람The noun from 바라다 (to wish) is 바람. 바램 would come from 바래다, which means to fade or to see someone off, so "my wish" is 나의 바람. Flagged only where the sentence makes the wish sense certain.
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What this checks, and what it does not
This is a curated set of rules for the mistakes Korean writers actually make (몇일, 됬다, 할께, 않되, 어떻해, 금새 and some dozens more), each shown with the rule it breaks. It is not a dictionary and not a grammar checker: a word it has no rule for passes in silence, so an empty result means that none of these rules matched, not that the text is correct.
Deliberately not checked, because a rule cannot tell the mistake from a correct word: 이/가 and 은/는 (국가, 먹는, 사과 and 가까이 are correct and look exactly like the error); a 받침 followed by 로 (진로, 통로); the spacing of compound nouns, and of auxiliary verbs, which 한글 맞춤법 제47항 allows either way; -데/-대 and -든/-던 outside a few fixed phrases; 로서/로써 beyond people and roles; 틀리다/다르다; and 이에요/예요 after a noun. A number with its unit (3개, 3 개) is allowed both ways and left alone.
Of the particles, only 을/를, 과/와 and (으)로 are checked, and only in the direction almost no real word shares (책를, 책와, 학교으로): 를 after an ㄹ 받침 is left alone, because 들를 is a verb, and 와 is flagged only when a noun with its own particle follows, because 얼른와 and 못와 are 오다 written without its space. A loanword finding may be a brand name that keeps its own spelling; judge those yourself. Nothing you type leaves your browser.
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