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Hunspell

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Hunspell
DeveloperLászló Németh
Stable release1.7.6[1]  / 26 October 2026
Written inC++
Operating systemCross-platform
TypeSpell checker
LicenseGNU Lesser General Public License and Mozilla Public License
Websitehunspell.github.io
Repositorygithub.com/hunspell/hunspell

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#edit

Software with Hunspell support:

NameTypeGroupMethodNotes
ChromeWeb browserGoogle?[2]
ChromiumWeb browserGoogle?[2]
EmpathyInstant messaging—Dynamically-linked libenchantIssue selecting dictionaries Enchant[3]
FirefoxWeb browserMozilla?—
IllustratorVector graphicsAdobeStatically-linked libhunspell—
InDesignDesktop publishingAdobeStatically-linked libhunspellSince CS5.5[4]
geditText editorGNOMEDynamically-linked libenchant via GtkSpell[5]—
GroupWise—Starting in version 2012[6]
JetBrains IDEsIntegrated development environmentJetBrains—ReSharper[7] & IDEs use Hunspell dictionaries[8][9]
.NET—[10]
Origyn Web BrowserWeb browser—Dynamically-linked spellchecker.librarySince 3.12
Perl—[11]
QuarkXPressDesktop publishingQuark Software Inc.Statically-linked libhunspellSince QuarkXPress 2017[12]
ScribusDesktop publishing—Dynamically-linked libenchantSince 1.4.2[13]
NameTypeGroupMethodNotes

License#edit

Hunspell is free software, distributed under the terms of a GPL, LGPL and MPL tri-license.

See also#edit

References#edit

  1. ^ "Release 1.7.6". 26 October 2026. Retrieved 27 October 2026.
  2. ^ a b Shankland, Stephen. "Google augments open-source spell-check". CNET. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
  3. ^ Sumner, Kevin (7 October 2009). "Spell checking doesn't allow US English words when using "English" language". Ubuntu—empathy package. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
  4. ^ Sousa, Miguel (5 November 2011). "How to enable more languages in InDesign CS5.5".
  5. ^ "GtkSpell". SourceForge. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
  6. ^ "GroupWise 2012". Novell. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
  7. ^ "Spellchecking | ReSharper". ReSharper Help. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
  8. ^ "Hunspell dictionaries support | The PhpStorm Blog". The JetBrains Blog. 19 January 2018. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
  9. ^ "Spellchecking | IntelliJ IDEA". IntelliJ IDEA Help. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
  10. ^ "NHunspell - Free Spell-Checker, Hyphenation and Thesaurus for .NET". Crawler-Lib. Archived from the original on 22 August 2017. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
  11. ^ "Text-Hunspell-2.16 - Perl interface to the Hunspell library". MetaCPAN. Retrieved 15 July 2022.
  12. ^ Lamy, Arnaud (14 August 2018). "Professional Spell Checker XTension for QuarkXPress".
  13. ^ "1.4.2 Release". Scribus Wiki. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
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