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Nuspell

Spelling checker

  • Library
  • LIBRARY
  • C-PLUS-PLUS
  • SPELLCHECK
  • Dependency only
  • Same app · 2 sources
Official OARS · imported from upstream · official · May 24, 2026 description in en

Description

Nuspell is a fast and safe spelling checker software program. It is designed for languages with rich morphology and complex word compounding. Nuspell is written in modern C++ and it supports Hunspell dictionaries.

Main features of Nuspell spelling checker:

Provides software library and command-line tool.

Suggests high-quality spelling corrections.

Backward compatibility with Hunspell dictionary file format.

Up to 3 times faster than Hunspell. - Full Unicode support backed by ICU.

Twofold affix stripping (for agglutinative languages, like Azeri, Basque, Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Turkish, etc.).

Supports complex compounds (for example, Hungarian, German and Dutch).

Supports advanced features, for example: special casing rules (Turkish dotted i or German sharp s), conditional affixes, circumfixes, fogemorphemes, forbidden words, pseudoroots and homonyms.

Free and open source software. Licensed under GNU LGPL v3 or later.

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