Internet Explorer 9 may has lot of features compare to its previous versions, but it still needs to work on some of the basics. How about a spell checker to start with? Yes it has lacked an essential feature – Real time spell check.

Speckie is a plugin that brings this vital feature to Internet Explorer 9, and quite possibly, to earlier versions as well. After you install it you will have to restart IE and then, at first launch, you will have to allow Speckie to run. There is no configuration to be made, although you can download and add additional dictionaries.

Speckie settings can be accessed from either right-click menu or Settings –> Manage add-ons. By default, it doesn’t check spelling mistakes in single line text fields, however, if you want to check mistakes in, for instance, websites search field, enable it from Spell Check section.  The Tag Properties contains all the supported word highlighting styles with option to customize each style.

The noteworthy part is that Speckie supports adding dictionaries. If you want to, lets say, include German dictionary, just head over to Speckie product page and download it. Once downloaded, you can either replace the default English dictionary or add it in the list.Underneath Tag Properties, you can add more dictionaries and replace existing one.Check out a list of available dictionaries here.

Download Speckie to Enable Real Time Spell Check In Internet Explorer 9.