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To turn on the vim spell checker run :set spell. To turn it off run :set nospell. If you always want the spell checker to be on, add set spell to your vimrc. You can turn spelling on only for certain filetypes using an auto command. Once the spell checker is on, misspelled words will be highligh...

To set the word list that vim will use for spell checking set the spelllang option. For example :set spelllang=en # set to English, usually this is the default :set spelllang=en_us # set to U.S. English :set spelllang=en_uk # set to U.K. English spellings :set spelllang=es ...