The application discloses a method and device for determining a correction word. The method comprises the steps that a correlated word is selected within a preset scope of contexts near a word in a to-be-tested text containing a wrongly written character; and a word which is correlated to the correlated word and appears together with the correlated word in a group is determined and taken as the correction word of the word containing the wrongly written character. The method and device disclosed by the application solves the technical problem in the prior art that the correction word of the wrongly written character cannot be given.