The English language borrows an large number of geographical locations and words in general from other languages and cultures, making it difficult for anyone to master (native speakers or not)—and English is far from the only language that has hard-to-spell words.
That’s one reason why the Wikimedia Foundation has developed a completion suggester for the Wikimedia projects to help you even when you can’t remember how to spell the word you’re looking for. This tool can autocorrect for typos and missing words, like “the” and “of” from The Lord of the Rings, and incorporates data like pageviews, so pages viewed more often are placed higher in search results.
This feature is now live on every Wikimedia wiki in all 292 languages, with the only exception of Wikidata.[1] The completion suggester, along with other recent updates from the Discovery Department (did you see the wikipedia.org search portal update last week?) are part of a steady stream improvements to search across the Wikimedia sites.
