23. A digital data processing means for locating from a plurality of digital coded candidate words at least one which is both an acceptable misspelling and an acceptable inflection of a digital coded query word, the query word and each of plural ones of the candidate words comprising plural characters, the means comprising: means for determining the characters forming a stem portion and an ending portion of such query word; means for forming a suffix class indication for any one of a plurality of classes in which the query word may be included; means for comparing the characters of the stem portion of the query word with characters in the beginning of such candidate words for finding candidate words with acceptable misspelling matches and candidate words with nonacceptable misspelling matches; means for determining characters forming an ending portion, if any, in each of individual ones of the candidate words; means for utilizing the suffix class indication to select from among other suffixes a representation of characters forming at least one acceptable suffix for the candidate words; and means for comparing character by character the characters of said at least one selected acceptable suffix with the characters in the ending portion in each of the individual ones of the candidate words for finding acceptable ending portions, the first and second recited means thereby locating candidate words which are both an acceptable misspelling and an acceptable inflection of the query word.
23. A digital data processing means for locating from a plurality of digital coded candidate words at least one which is both an acceptable misspelling and an acceptable inflection of a digital coded query word, the query word and each of plural ones of the candidate words comprising plural characters, the means comprising: means for determining the characters forming a stem portion and an ending portion of such query word; means for forming a suffix class indication for any one of a plurality of classes in which the query word may be included; means for comparing the characters of the stem portion of the query word with characters in the beginning of such candidate words for finding candidate words with acceptable misspelling matches and candidate words with nonacceptable misspelling matches; means for determining characters forming an ending portion, if any, in each of individual ones of the candidate words; means for utilizing the suffix class indication to select from among other suffixes a representation of characters forming at least one acceptable suffix for the candidate words; and means for comparing character by character the characters of said at least one selected acceptable suffix with the characters in the ending portion in each of the individual ones of the candidate words for finding acceptable ending portions, the first and second recited means thereby locating candidate words which are both an acceptable misspelling and an acceptable inflection of the query word. 25. Means according to claim 23 wherein the means for comparing characters of the stem portion comprises means, at least for each of those candidate words which is an acceptable misspelling match, for forming a match class indication representing a value corresponding to any one of a plurality of classes in which the acceptable misspelling match may be included; and wherein the means for determining characters forming an ending portion comprises additional means for utilizing the acceptable match class indication for each of individual ones of the candidate words to determine the position of the characters of said ending portion in each such candidate word.