I’ve just been using LucidSpark and they offer spell check! FYI they are using the same sort of HTML canvas graphics as Figma to render their website so I’m sure Figma could do the same!
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I hope this doesn’t mean you’re working on a shiny, new, ‘innovative,’ overdesigned spell-check feature. WE DON’T NEED THAT. We literally just need redlines and a way to toggle it on and off… I usually hate when users ‘prescribe’ how long things should take to get released, but this shouldn’t be taking this long. It’s been years.
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Yay!.. However, can you only see redlines if the textbox is active? As an editor, I need to see spelling errors right away instead of tediously clicking into every single textbox to see the errors. Very inefficient and creates more work.
Screencast: Screen Recording 12-6-2022 ...
Yes - As mentioned in the link provided, “Spell check identifies errors while you are in text edit mode and only for the text layer you currently have active.”
We appreciate your feedback though! Feel free to start a new thread so others can can chime in and vote.
I cannot get spell check to work on the desktop app for mac os. It works fine on the figma website and it also shows the menu structure within the desktop app with a check mark next to the “check spelling” option, but it never underlines the misspelled words when I edit text. I am running desktop app version 116.4.2. The language setting on the mac is the same as what is selected in Figma (English) and I have tried clearing the app cache (in Help → Troubleshooting), all to no avail.
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12/21/22 Update: I contacted Figma support and had to send them some debug info from my Mac. Desktop app version 116.5.18 fixes the issue.
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So this was launched but for text in designs only. Why not comments? I find it bizarre that wasn’t also included in this update. The red squiggly lines are there in comments, but you can’t right-click to get suggestions/change it. Please enable this. 
I also noticed this was not enabled for Section or Frame names. It would be good to have spell check functioning not only on those but in the layers panel as well.
Thanks for the idea @Matty_Vazquez!
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