Class Categories


  • public final class Categories
    extends Object
    Pre-defined rule categories.
    Since:
    3.3
    • Field Detail

      • CASING

        public static final Categories CASING
        Rules about detecting uppercase words where lowercase is required and vice versa.
      • COMPOUNDING

        public static final Categories COMPOUNDING
        Rules about spelling terms as one word or as as separate words.
      • TYPOS

        public static final Categories TYPOS
        Spelling issues.
      • PUNCTUATION

        public static final Categories PUNCTUATION
      • TYPOGRAPHY

        public static final Categories TYPOGRAPHY
        Problems like incorrectly used dash or quote characters.
      • CONFUSED_WORDS

        public static final Categories CONFUSED_WORDS
        Words that are easily confused, like 'there' and 'their' in English.
      • REPETITIONS

        public static final Categories REPETITIONS
      • REDUNDANCY

        public static final Categories REDUNDANCY
      • STYLE

        public static final Categories STYLE
        General style issues not covered by other categories, like overly verbose wording.
      • PLAIN_ENGLISH

        public static final Categories PLAIN_ENGLISH
        Created to match PLAIN_ENGLISH XML category.
      • GENDER_NEUTRALITY

        public static final Categories GENDER_NEUTRALITY
      • SEMANTICS

        public static final Categories SEMANTICS
        Logic, content, and consistency problems.
      • COLLOQUIALISMS

        public static final Categories COLLOQUIALISMS
        Colloquial style.
      • REGIONALISMS

        public static final Categories REGIONALISMS
        Regionalisms: words used only in another language variant or used with different meanings.
      • FALSE_FRIENDS

        public static final Categories FALSE_FRIENDS
        False friends: words easily confused by language learners because a similar word exists in their native language.
      • WIKIPEDIA

        public static final Categories WIKIPEDIA
        Rules that only make sense when editing Wikipedia (typically turned off by default in LanguageTool).
      • MISC

        public static final Categories MISC
        Miscellaneous rules that don't fit elsewhere.