All computers come with spellcheckers and iPhones autocorrect their users’ texts. But despite those everyday features, formal spelling instruction still pays off, the findings of a new study suggest.

Oddly, "misspell," a not-particularly easy word to spell, is not on a recently released list of words Americans most often misspell. Using Google Trends search data from the start of the year through ...

I’ve been a professional journalist for 43 years, but that doesn’t mean I can spell a lot of fairly common words correctly. But over the years I learned to know what words I’d most likely misspell, so ...