Hunspell Dictionaries, as well as other good dictionaries, will help you to avoid spelling mistakes. They are used in many applications such as CAT (Computer Aided Translation) tools and word processors.
Hunspell itself is a spell checker and morphological analyzer for complex languages. It is implemented in applications like OmegaT (CAT tool), OpenOffice (word processor), Firefox and Chrome (web browsers), Thunderbird (email client), and many more. Hunspell is free software distributed under the terms of GPL, LGPL, and MPL tri-license.
For most applications, you don’t have to worry about dictionaries. The correct dictionary or dictionaries will be installed when you choose your working language in that application. However, there are some applications (e.g., OmegaT) where you will have to find the dictionaries by yourself. This can turn out to be a frustrating experience.
To help you to avoid a long, frustrating search on the web, we provide you the following links to some repositories of dictionaries for many languages:
Available for: Cross-Platform
Download Hunspell Dictionaries at TU Wien:
Additional Resources:
Hunspell Dictionaries at USSG
OpenOffice Extensions Main
OpenOffice Extensions Search
Note: Please feel free to send us additional links if you know some. We and all the other users out there will greatly appreciate your contribution.
The following information is taken from the official Hunspell website:
Hunspell is the spell checker of LibreOffice, OpenOffice.org, Mozilla Firefox 3 & Thunderbird, Google Chrome. It is also used by proprietary software packages, like macOS, InDesign, memoQ, Opera and SDL Trados.
Main features:
- Extended support for language peculiarities; Unicode character encoding, compounding and complex morphology.
- Improved suggestion using n-gram similarity, rule and dictionary based pronunciation data.
- Morphological analysis, stemming and generation.
- Hunspell is based on MySpell and works also with MySpell dictionaries.
- C++ library under GPL/LGPL/MPL tri-license.
- Interfaces and ports: AndroidHunspellService (for Android, based on the Chromium fork of Hunspell), Enchant (Generic spelling library from the Abiword project), XSpell (macOS port, but Hunspell is part of the macOS from version 10.6 (Snow Leopard), and now it is enough to place the Hunspell dictionary files into ~/Library/Spelling or /Library/Spelling for spell checking), Delphi, Java (JNA, JNI), Perl, .NET, .NET Standard, Python, Ruby (1, 2, 3), UNO, RichEdit.
