This page is three tools in one. The Word Checker tells you what a word actually does in a sentence – its part of speech, whether it is countable or uncountable, whether it needs a, an, the or no article at all, which preposition is compulsory after it, and the collocations examiners expect. It corrects your spelling as you look words up, and plays both UK and US pronunciation.
The Essay Phrase Bank lists the most useful phrases for every essay category – education, technology, health, environment, society, plus introductions, advantages, cause and effect, problem and solution, conclusions, linking words and reporting. Click any phrase and you get its structure, article rule, preposition rule, model sentences and the ideas you can generate from it. The Writing Checker takes an essay, a paragraph or a single sentence and reports on it sentence by sentence. For each sentence it highlights the problem words, names the issue, gives the correct form and explains the rule. It also reports the things that decide your score at document level: word count against the 200–300 range, paragraphing, average sentence length, linking-word coverage, repeated sentence openers and overused vocabulary.
Everything runs inside your browser, so nothing you type is sent anywhere or stored. Type a word and the tool also asks the free online dictionary for the definition and pronunciation; if you are offline, the PTE guidance still works.
What the Word Checker gives you
The word list covers the PTE essay core: the nouns, verbs, adjectives and linking words that appear again and again in Write Essay and Summarize Written Text. For each one you get:
Part of speech and, for nouns, whether it is countable, uncountable or both.
The article rule – for example impact is countable so it must be a significant impact on, while access, information and employment take no article at all.
The compulsory preposition – access to, pressure on, threat to, awareness of, gap between, dependence on, invest in.
Strong collocations, a model sentence you can reuse, and the common error to avoid, such as the beneficial of or informations.
UK and US pronunciation buttons with the phonetic transcription where the dictionary has it.
If a word is outside the core list, the tool still shows the dictionary definition and pronunciation, and it tells you plainly that no article or collocation guidance is available for it.
What the Writing Checker looks for
Each sentence is tested against rules in these areas:
Noun phrases – the important of → the importance of, for all 25 adjective-to-noun pairs.
Prepositions – need of, solution of, effect to, discuss about, emphasize on, capable to, similar with, participate to, invest on and about fifty more.
Gerunds – capable of reduce, effective in reduce, contribute to reduce, by provide.
Verb forms – can improves, should provides, may reducing.
Articles – has significant impact on, plays vital role, reduce burden, a adverse effect, an university, one of the advantage.
Countability – informations, an advice, many research.
Agreement – governments provides, information are, there is many.
Connectives – Although ..., but ..., despite of, because of + clause, double linkers.
Quantifiers – less people, fewer money, amount of people.
Spelling – the fifty-five misspellings that appear most often in exam scripts.
Sentence structure – fragments with no main verb, comma splices, sentences over forty words, missing capitals and full stops.
Register – contractions, a lot of, nowadays, I think, very + adjective.
How to use it while you practise
Write your essay first without stopping, then paste it in and work through the must fix issues.
Use the category filters to drill one weakness at a time – do all the preposition issues, then all the article issues.
When a word is flagged, look it up in the Word Checker tab to see the whole pattern rather than just the fix.
Check the document notes last: length, paragraphing, linking words and repeated vocabulary all carry marks.
An honest note on what this tool is
This is a rule-based checker, not an artificial intelligence marker. It is very reliable on the error patterns it knows, and those are exactly the ones that cost marks in PTE writing. It will not catch every possible mistake, it cannot judge whether your ideas answer the question, and it occasionally flags something that is acceptable in context. Treat every result as a prompt to check the rule, not as a final verdict, and always read your own sentence again after making a change.
