I noticed another problem is that the highlighter will select the language name as well as the term which means <?php and (c) Copyright are shown instead of the actual mistake.
C# I can understand being so low, since it's almost always written in Visual Studio or MonoDevelop (both of which provide autocompletion). But how is JavaScript the next lowest?
Hmm, I guess it's because length is a commonly used function in Javascript, but not in other languages. In Python you do len(list) instead, so the word length is more likely to appear in comments and therefore less likely to be corrected.
Because the built-in .length property is frequently used, and will fail if misspelled.
Whereas C and C++ programs tend to have a lenght operator implemented by the programmer, and from there the error gets snowballed by IDEs and debuggers.
C# is also a compiled language, so you wouldn't be able to get anything to run with a typo like that hanging around. I find it surprising that there are so many commits making that mistake!
Being a compiled language isn't sufficient to prevent "no method" errors. It's completely possible for a compiled language to define methods at runtime or use duck typing.
Odd that compiled languages (C, C++, Java) are higher than some interpreted languages (PHP, Javascript). Of course, the search will match comments as well as code, so it may just mean they have better comments.
I can't think of anything in C or C++ that uses length off the top of my head. Size and Len, sure, but nothing that's length.
I would guess that most of the spelling errors get propagated through autocomplete. That's how most of the spelling errors in my code get there anyway.
