spell and /usr/dict/words.

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <517 at sun13.scri.fsu.edu> mayne at VSSERV.SCRI.FSU.EDU (William (Bill) Mayne) writes:
>... For relatively long strings there are many hash collisions which
>cause nonwords to be accepted.

Yes, and if there are too many arcane-but-correct spellings in the word
list that "spell" uses, many misspellings will not be detected because
the misspelling matches some arcane, unintended word.  When it comes to
"spell", bigger is definitely not better.