Check Malay spelling, grammar and punctuation free. Every issue underlined where it happens, with the reason attached.
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Paste Malay and every issue is underlined where it happens, labelled spelling, grammar, punctuation or style, with the reason attached. Malay is written in the Latin alphabet, and affixes, di- as prefix or preposition, Dewan Bahasa spelling, reduplication are what a checker has to get right in it. This one shows the rule each time, not just the change, so you can accept the fix, ignore it, or learn from it.
Three steps. The third is the one most checkers leave out.
Type, paste or drop in a document. Malay is already selected as the language on this page; the menu above the editor also offers the variants described below. If the text turns out to be something else, the detector says so and you can change it.
Every flag is underlined in the text and listed beside it. Spelling and grammar flags are errors; punctuation and style flags are judgements, and the label tells you which is which before you decide.
Click a flag to see the fix and the rule behind it, then accept it or ignore it. Malay has rules that speech does not reveal, and the reason is there so the same error is not made twice.
The parts of Malay grammar and spelling where a checker has to know the language, not just the words.
Five errors Malay readers notice at once, and what the checker does with each.
Ditulis (is written) is one word; di sekolah (at school) is two. The rule is the same as in Indonesian and broken just as often.
Pejabat, not kantor; boleh, not bisa; kereta, not mobil; percuma, not gratis. The two standards are close enough that the wrong one slips in unnoticed.
Tak, nak, dah, je, kat are speech. Tidak, hendak, sudah, sahaja, di are the written forms.
Membaca, mengambil, menyapu, memukul: the prefix assimilates, and the root loses its first letter after meny-, mem- and meng- when that letter is s, p or k.
Kanak-kanak, not kanak2; buku-buku, not buku2. The hyphen is the standard form.
Formal Malay uses anda or the title (Encik, Puan, Tuan) for you and saya for I; the short spoken forms (aku, kau, tak, nak, mcm) and the SMS abbreviations belong to chat and are flagged as register in formal writing.
The checker flags a mixed register as style rather than as an error, so the decision stays yours. If a whole text needs to move from one register to the other, the tone changer rewrites it in one pass.
Students in Malaysia writing for SPM, STPM and university, where DBP spelling is marked.
Companies and agencies writing to Malaysian customers in formal Malay.
Indonesian speakers writing Malay, who need the two standards kept apart.
Yes. Check Malay without an account, within the per-check and daily word allowances shown beside the editor. Signing in raises them, and Pro removes the guest limits and the ads. The pricing page lists what each plan includes.
The checker targets standard Malay as used in Malaysia (and, with minor differences, Brunei and Singapore). It is close to Indonesian but not the same: the two differ in vocabulary, in some affix use and in spelling, and a Malay text with Indonesian forms is flagged. Malay is preselected on this page; change the language menu above the editor if the text is a different variant.
Yes, and in Malay the two overlap. The Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka spelling is the standard; the errors met most are di- and ke- joined or split wrongly, Indonesian spellings and words in a Malay text (kantor for pejabat, bisa for boleh, mobil for kereta), and the short forms tak, nak, dah written out in formal text. Each of these is underlined where it happens, labelled spelling or grammar, with the standard form and the rule beside it.
Not unless you ask it to. A check corrects what is wrong and leaves your sentences as you wrote them; every change is a separate flag you accept or ignore. The Improve and Rewrite passes, which do change wording, are separate buttons, and the paraphraser is a separate tool.
Yes. Paste the text or drop in a .docx, .pdf or .txt file; the document is checked paragraph by paragraph and the corrected version can be copied or exported. Long documents are checked within the per-check allowance and continue as you scroll.
That is where the reason attached to each flag earns its keep. No gender, no case, no agreement and no conjugation for person or tense. A learner sees which rule was broken, not just the corrected word, and can accept the fix or read why it was raised before deciding.
Translate the corrected Malay, change its tone, or shorten it. One plan covers every tool.
Each page opens the checker with that language already selected and explains what it looks for in it. The picker above the editor covers more than seventy languages in all.
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