| Hunspell | |
|---|---|
| Developer | László Németh |
| Stable release | |
| Written in | C++ |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | Spell checker |
| License | GNU Lesser General Public License and Mozilla Public License |
| Website | hunspell |
| Repository | |
Hunspell is a spell checker and morphological analyser designed for languages with rich morphology and complex word compounding and character encoding, originally designed for the Hungarian language.
Hunspell is based on MySpell and is backward-compatible with MySpell dictionaries. While MySpell uses a single-byte character encoding, Hunspell can use Unicode UTF-8-encoded dictionaries.
Uses
Software with Hunspell support:
| Name | Type | Group | Method | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Web browser | ? | 2 | |
| Chromium | Web browser | ? | 2 | |
| Empathy | Instant messaging | — | Dynamically-linked libenchant | Issue selecting dictionaries Enchant3 |
| Firefox | Web browser | Mozilla | ? | — |
| Illustrator | Vector graphics | Adobe | Statically-linked libhunspell | — |
| InDesign | Desktop publishing | Adobe | Statically-linked libhunspell | Since CS5.54 |
| gedit | Text editor | GNOME | Dynamically-linked libenchant via GtkSpell5 | — |
| GroupWise | — | Starting in version 20126 | ||
| JetBrains IDEs | Integrated development environment | JetBrains | — | ReSharper7 & IDEs use Hunspell dictionaries89 |
| .NET | — | 10 | ||
| Origyn Web Browser | Web browser | — | Dynamically-linked spellchecker.library | Since 3.12 |
| Perl | — | 11 | ||
| QuarkXPress | Desktop publishing | Quark Software Inc. | Statically-linked libhunspell | Since QuarkXPress 201712 |
| Scribus | Desktop publishing | — | Dynamically-linked libenchant | Since 1.4.213 |
| Name | Type | Group | Method | Notes |
License
Hunspell is free software, distributed under the terms of a GPL, LGPL and MPL tri-license.
References
References
- "Release 1.7.3". 5 May 2026. Retrieved 6 May 2026.
- Shankland, Stephen. "Google augments open-source spell-check". CNET. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
- Sumner, Kevin (7 October 2009). "Spell checking doesn't allow US English words when using "English" language". Ubuntu—empathy package. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
- Sousa, Miguel (5 November 2011). "How to enable more languages in InDesign CS5.5".
- "GtkSpell". SourceForge. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
- "GroupWise 2012". Novell. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
- "Spellchecking | ReSharper". ReSharper Help. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
- "Hunspell dictionaries support | The PhpStorm Blog". The JetBrains Blog. 19 January 2018. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
- "Spellchecking | IntelliJ IDEA". IntelliJ IDEA Help. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
- "NHunspell - Free Spell-Checker, Hyphenation and Thesaurus for .NET". Crawler-Lib. Archived from the original on 22 August 2017. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
- "Text-Hunspell-2.16 - Perl interface to the Hunspell library". MetaCPAN. Retrieved 15 July 2022.
- Lamy, Arnaud (14 August 2018). "Professional Spell Checker XTension for QuarkXPress".
- "1.4.2 Release". Scribus Wiki. Retrieved 4 May 2020.