es:Language checking pt:Language checking ja:言語チェック zh-hans:语言检查 This article covers spell checking and grammar checking software.

Except for special cases, all spell checkers have in common that they consist of two parts: the logic unit and the dictionary. Make sure to install both.

Spell checkers

• , supports hunspell dictionaries

Language-specific

Enchant

Enchant is a wrapper library for generic spell checking, developed as part of AbiWord, supporting all above spell checkers apart from Ispell.

Enchant is available as the enchant package. For its usage and ordering file, see enchant-2(1).

Enchant is used by many applications through the following GTK libraries:

Applications

Firefox, Thunderbird, Chromium and LibreOffice can all use system-wide installed Hunspell dictionaries as well as dictionaries/other spell checkers installed through their own extension systems. See the following sections:

• Firefox#Spell checking

• Thunderbird#Spell checking

• LibreOffice#Spell checking

• AbiWord and Gedit use Enchant.

• calligra spellchecking requires aspell

Grammar checkers

Applications

Firefox, Thunderbird, Chromium and LibreOffice all support grammar checking only through extensions. For LibreOffice, see LibreOffice#Grammar checking with LanguageTool.

AbiWord has a built-in grammar checker, see AbiWord#Grammar checking.