Important Notice

The pages on this site contain documentation for very old MS-DOS software, purely for historical purposes. If you're looking for up-to-date documentation, particularly for programming, you should not rely on the information found here, as it will be woefully out of date.

Standard dictionary
 
The dictionary provided on the Spell disk. This
dictionary contains over 130,000 words; it is
also referred to as the main dictionary. Word
checks the spelling of words in a selection or
document against this dictionary first, and then
checks the document or user dictionary if either
exists. See also: Document dictionary; User
dictionary.