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Medical Spell Checker

Check clinical notes, reports, and patient messages for spelling and grammar errors, backed by a dictionary of over 75,000 medical terms.

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This free demo is not covered by a BAA, so please use de-identified text. For protected health information, use Sapling under a BAA.

Look up a single medical term

Not sure how a term is spelled? Enter your best guess to get the closest matches from the medical dictionary. Lookup is not case-sensitive.

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Built for clinical writing

Why use a medical spell checker

General spell checkers underline correct clinical terms and miss the misspelled ones. Sapling knows the vocabulary.

Medical dictionary

Over 75,000 biomedical terms, from cholecystectomy to metoprolol, so correct terminology isn't flagged and misspellings get the right suggestion. The cleaned dictionary used here is available under GPL v3.

Grammar, too

Sapling's AI grammar checker runs alongside the dictionary, catching errors like "he were admitted" or "follow up in two week" that a word list can't.

HIPAA compliant

Sapling offers a HIPAA compliant solution with a signed BAA, zero data retention, and on-premises deployment options. See HIPAA and security.

Use cases

Fewer errors in medical notes and communications

Sapling's medical spell checker helps healthcare professionals such as doctors, nurses, and office aides reduce the errors made in their medical notes and communications: progress notes, discharge summaries, referral letters, prior authorizations, and patient portal messages. Sapling offers integrations so that users get corrections in real time as they compose documents. It can also be used to edit existing documents.

Specialties supported include

  • Critical Care
  • Dermatology
  • Gynecology
  • Internal Medicine
  • Neurology
  • Primary Care
  • Oncology
  • Orthopedics
  • Pharma
  • Urology

Checking drug names? Try the pharmaceutical spell checker. For everyday writing, use the general spell checker or grammar checker.

Frequently asked questions

How is a medical spell checker different from a regular spell checker?

A regular spell checker flags correct clinical terms such as cholecystectomy or metoprolol as errors because they are missing from its dictionary, and it cannot suggest the right spelling for a misspelled one. Sapling's medical spell checker uses a dictionary of over 75,000 biomedical terms, so it recognizes clinical vocabulary and corrects misspellings such as arhytmia to arrhythmia.

Does it check grammar as well as spelling?

Yes. The editor runs Sapling's AI grammar checker alongside the medical dictionary, so it also catches errors such as subject-verb agreement and missing plurals in clinical notes.

Is the medical spell checker free?

Yes. The medical spell checker on this page is free to use. Teams that want medical spell checking inside their EHR, patient portal, or other software can use the Sapling API.

Is Sapling's medical spell checker HIPAA compliant?

Sapling offers a HIPAA compliant solution and signs a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) with healthcare customers. The free demo on this page is not covered by a BAA, so use de-identified text here and contact Sapling for a BAA before processing protected health information.

Which medical specialties are supported?

The medical dictionary covers terminology across specialties including critical care, dermatology, gynecology, internal medicine, neurology, primary care, oncology, orthopedics, pharma, and urology.

Can I add medical spell checking to my own application?

Yes. Sapling provides a medical spell check API and a JavaScript SDK that adds the same in-editor suggestions to any text field. On-premises and self-hosted deployments are available for stricter data residency requirements.

Medical spell check in your EHR or app

Use the API or JavaScript SDK to add these suggestions anywhere clinicians write, with a BAA and zero data retention.