hunspell

brew install hunspell v1.7.3 MPL-1.1 OR GPL-2.0-or-later OR LGPL-2.1-or-later

Spell checker and morphological analyzer library and CLI tool written in C++.

Why you might care

Hunspell powers spell-checking in LibreOffice, Firefox, and Thunderbird. Use it as a standalone CLI tool or link it into applications that need multi-language spell-checking with morphological analysis. It's the de facto standard for open-source spell-checking across different character encodings and complex morphologies.

Alternatives

aspell ispell enchant

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Runtime dependencies

readline gettext

Build dependencies

gettext coreutils

Caveats

Dictionary files (*.aff and *.dic) should be placed in
~/Library/Spelling/ or /Library/Spelling/.  Homebrew itself
provides no dictionaries for Hunspell, but you can download
compatible dictionaries from other sources, such as
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/dictionaries/tree/ .

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