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Prose check: name spelling slipsReina, Reina, Rena.

Your spell checker doesn’t know your characters, so it can’t tell you that “Rena” was meant to be “Reina”. Falcontext finds name spelling slips like that.

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In Falcontext’s Edit tab, Name spelling slips is one part of Spelling consistency, with US or UK spelling and words written two ways. Each part has its own light, and the worst sets the check’s.

How it finds name spelling slips

Falcontext learns your book’s names from how often they come up, capitalised, mid-sentence. Then it looks for a name spelled one letter differently from one that’s far more common.

BeforeTomas called after Reina, but Reina kept walking. He followed Reina to the river, where Rena stopped and waited.

AfterTomas called after Reina, but Reina kept walking. He followed Reina to the river, where Reina stopped and waited.

When it’s a different person

Sometimes Rena is someone else. Ignore it, once, and it stops asking.

Real words aren’t taken for slips just for being one letter off a name (June next to Jane), only real spellings of it.

How Falcontext checks name spelling slips

Guidelines, not rules. Two characters, one letter apart? Ignore it once and it stops asking.

Falcontext’s Edit tab beside Perch’s writing pad: the Name spelling slips check open, finding “Rena” in a book where she is “Reina”, marked in the text.

Finds

Names spelled one letter differently from the way the book usually spells them, each marked in your text with the name it probably is.

Traffic light

None
1–2
3 or more

Fix

Fix puts the usual spelling back, one slip or all of them. In the desktop app you change them yourself.

It’s one of the slips the Write tab checks while you draft, too.

Names are on every copyeditor’s style sheet, so this check is part of the last pass when you self-edit your novel.

Ever renamed a character halfway through a draft?

Questions about name spelling slips.

How do I find misspelled character names?

Falcontext learns your book’s names and flags any spelled one letter differently from a much more common one, like “Rena” among “Reina”s.

What if two characters have similar names?

Ignore the finding once and it’s left alone from then on.

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