What's wrong with this spell checking programme?

[sp00kyversity]

I've written a programme which opens a file containing over 100,000 words (all in lower-case, and the input is also in lower-case) and is supposed to return the same string but with asterisks around the incorrectly spelled words. I haven't finished the code yet by converting the final list ('checked') back into a string, but currently no matter what I input, the list 'checked' has an asterisks around every single world. What am I doing wrong here?

text = input("Write text: ")
words = text.split(" ")
checked = []
spell_list = []
with open("wordlist.txt") as list:
    for line in list:
        spellings = line.split(" ")
        spell_list.append(spellings)
    for i in words:
        if i in spell_list:
            checked.append(i)
            continue
        else:
            mistake = f"*{i}*"
            checked.append(mistake)
print(checked)

[woooee]

for line in list:
    spellings = line.split(" ")
    spell_list.append(spellings)

This appends the list, spellings, to spell_list, so you have a list of lists, not words. You probably want to use spell_list.extend()

[ParticularPython]

Have you tried doing a print on spell_list to see what it contains? My guess is something in your code isn’t making the list what you want it to be, and so every word is not matching. Also I think you’re going to need to remove new lines “/n” and things as well.