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iOS

Posted by Raymond Lian
Raymond Lian
1,607 Points

Making a word game. I need to check if a word is real, IOS

I would like to use the built in dictionary in IOS, the one that does the spell check and use it to determine if a word that the user inputs is real.

1 Answer

Greg Kaleka
Greg Kaleka
39,021 Points
Greg Kaleka
Greg Kaleka
39,021 Points

You can use the UIReferenceLibraryViewController class method dictionaryHasDefinitionForTerm. It takes a String (your users' input) and returns a Bool (true if a definition exists, false if one does not).

Here's the documentation for UIReferenceLibraryViewController. In your case, you will never actually initialize the view controller - just use its class method.