Command-line tool

aspell

brew/aspell

Checked 25 Oct 2026, 21:09 UTC · Listing refreshed from Homebrew, winget, npm, Scoop and cargo; npm packages checked against OSV.dev

Spell checker with better logic than ispell

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Type

Command-line tool

Install on

Windows, macOS, Linux

Last checked

25 Oct 2026, 21:09 UTC

Install it

Windows

scoop install aspell

macOS

brew install aspell

Linux

brew install aspell

Spell check a single file

aspell check path/to/file

List misspelled words from `stdin`

cat path/to/file | aspell list

Show available dictionary languages

aspell dicts

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