Language checking

This article covers spell checking and grammar checking software.

Except for special cases, all spell checkers have in common that they consist of two parts: the logic unit and the dictionary. Make sure to install both.

Spell checkers

http://aspell.net/ || aspell, dictionaries, dictionaries in AUR
  • Hunspell Spell checker and morphological analyzer library and program, see also hunspell(1).
https://hunspell.github.io/ || hunspell, dictionaries in the official repositories, dictionaries in AUR
  • Nuspell Spell checker library and program designed as a modern alternative to hunspell, see also nuspell(1).
https://nuspell.github.io/ || nuspell, supports hunspell dictionaries
  • Ispell Interactive spell-checking program for Unix, see also ispell(1).
https://www.cs.hmc.edu/~geoff/ispell.html || ispell

Language-specific

  • Hspell Hebrew spell-checker
http://www.ivrix.org.il/projects/spell-checker/ || hspell
  • Voikko Finnish spelling and grammar checker, hyphenator and collection of related linguistic data
https://voikko.sourceforge.net || libvoikko

Enchant

Enchant is a wrapper library for generic spell checking, developed as part of AbiWord, supporting all above spell checkers apart from Ispell.

Enchant is available as the enchant package. It is also provided by the enchant-pureAUR package with minimal dependencies. For its usage and ordering file, see enchant-2(1).

Enchant is used by many applications through the following GTK libraries:

  • gspell Flexible API to implement spell checking in GTK applications.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/gspell || gspell

    Applications

    Firefox, Thunderbird, Chromium and LibreOffice can all use system-wide installed Hunspell dictionaries as well as dictionaries/other spell checkers installed through their own extension systems. See the following sections:

    AbiWord and Gedit use Enchant.

    Grammar checkers

    Applications

    Firefox, Thunderbird, Chromium and LibreOffice all support grammar checking only through extensions. For LibreOffice, see LibreOffice#Grammar checking.

    AbiWord has a built-in grammar checker, see AbiWord#Grammar checking.

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