7. A handheld electronic device comprising: a processor apparatus comprising a processor and a memory having a plurality of language objects stored therein; an input apparatus structured to provide input to the processor apparatus; an output apparatus structured to receive output signals from the processor apparatus; the memory having stored therein a number of routines having instructions which, when executed on the processor, cause the handheld electronic device to perform operations comprising: detecting a text entry comprising a plurality of characters; responsive to determining that no language object in the memory corresponds with the detected text entry, searching the memory to identify as proposed spell-check interpretations of the text entry language objects that correspond with a modified text entry that comprises the text entry having a wild card element in place of each of a number of terminal characters of the text entry, each wild card element being any character, including an absence of a character, in an alphabet; determining that an insufficient quantity of proposed spell-check interpretations have been identified, and responsive thereto: generating another modified text entry having one additional terminal character replaced with the wild card element; and searching the memory to identify as proposed spell-check interpretations of the text entry language objects that correspond with the another modified text entry, wherein if insufficient language objects have been identified, repeating said generating and said searching until sufficient language objects have been identified; and outputting one or more of the proposed language objects as proposed spell-check interpretations of the text entry.
9. The handheld electronic device of claim 7 wherein the operations further comprise: employing as the modified text entry the text entry having a wild card element in place of a terminal character of the text entry; making a determination that no language object corresponds with the text entry having a wild card element in place of a terminal character of the text entry; responsive to said making a determination, employing as the modified text entry the text entry having a pair of wild card elements in place of a pair of terminal characters of the text entry; and identifying the particular language object at least partially on the basis that it corresponds with the text entry having the pair of wild card elements in place of the pair of terminal characters of the text entry.