Check? or is it Cheque?  

To me it would depend on which place that you would be at. If you are in the US you would use check because it is part of the English language.

Can any word be obsolete in english language? I wonder! It will be more confusing for the ordinary jo to comprehend the differences in the American and British way of spelling. In school we studied British and now when I am in the cyber world it seems they prefer the American spelling and sometimes it makes me scratch my head to change my spellings to American as I am so used to the British spellings. The argument against spelling reform is merely a plea that what is novel is ugly, what is old is beautiful. The meanings of words are by no means usually to be discovered from their derivations. Many words give no obvious clue to their origin and history.

If you live in the USA it's check. If you live in the United Kingdom, I think it is still check. But if you live in the French part of Canada it's cheque. As for the word processor, I think it only recognizes American English which is different from British English. Example: American center and British centre. Both cheque and centre come up as wrong spelling in the word spelling checker.

Well I have always written it as cheque and no matter what Bill Gates says and underlines it with a red, I will keep it as ‘cheque’.

lol =D YEah, i have seen two versions before and when i was in school, i was taught the word, cheque, and not, check.. lol =D I guess it applies to different countries, and all i know is that, USA is one country that always likes to be different, in most of their spelling and words.. lol =D

But no matter what, as long as one understands what, cheque or check, is, it will be fine.. As long as it's in the dictionary, it means it's not obsolete yet.. hehe ^_^ Plus, nobody knows the difference when we are talking about instead of putting it into words.. haha

i think it's just only people misspelling if you mean cheque is the bank productions then cheque is the right spell, it's not provided in dictionary, because the dictionary write check as looking for the right things ... might be help
have a nice day ahgong

I always thought the spelling was based on where you were from. I mean if you are in the States it's check and if you are in England lets say it's cheque. I could be wrong. But that's what I thought.

The most common Spelling of the word (in all it senses) were check, checque, and cheque from the 1600s until the 1900s. Since the 1800s, the spelling cheque is standard from the financial sense of the word in the UK, Ireland, and the CommonWealth, while only check is retained in its other senses. Thus distinguishing the two defifitions in writting.

On the other hand, Check is used for the financial sense in the U.S

I use check when im talking about checking something...like making sure someone is correct. And then I use cheque to refer to the cheque you bring to the bank

I was also confused on which word to use, but I ended up using the word check instead...