GNU Aspell

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GNU Aspell, usually called just Aspell, is a free and open source spell checker designed to replace Ispell. It is the standard spelling checker software for the GNU software system. It also compiles for other Unix-like operating systems and Microsoft Windows. The main program is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (GNU LGPL), the documentation under GNU Free Documentation Licence (GNU FDL). Dictionaries for it are available for about 70 languages. The main maintainer is Kevin Atkinson.

Its main feature is that it does a superior job of suggesting possible replacements for a misspelled word than just about any other spell checker out there for the English language. Unlike Ispell, Aspell can also easily check documents in UTF-8 without having to use a special dictionary. Aspell will also do its best to respect the current locale setting. Other advantages over Ispell include support for using multiple dictionaries at once and intelligently handling personal dictionaries when more than one Aspell process is open at once.

Among others, OperaTemplate:Ref, AbiWord, LyX, and gedit use Aspell as spellchecking facility.

See also

• Hunspell
• Ispell
• MySpell
• Pspell

Notes and references

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External links

• Aspell Sourceforge
• Aspell Spell Helper
• Test Results of Aspell Compared to Other Spell Checkers
• The GNU Aspell documentation under the GNU Free Documentation Licence
• GNU Aspell download page -(FTP link)
• Aspell and UTF-8/Unicode
• GNU Aspell summary page at Savannah
• Mac OS X interface for Aspell

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