User blog comment:BertH/Wikia's evolution continues with VisualEditor/@comment-5028662-20131014233650/@comment-5275700-20131015003042

YES! That's actually one of the things I'm most excited about personally, as a fast but error-prone typer. VisualEditor works with your browser's native spell checker, so you'll see spelling errors the same way you do in source mode and other text editors.