Command-line tool

hunspell

brew/hunspell

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

Spell checker and morphological analyzer

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At a glance

Type

Command-line tool

Install on

Windows, macOS, Linux

Last checked

25 Oct 2026, 21:09 UTC

Install it

Windows

winget install --id FSFhu.Hunspell -e

macOS

brew install hunspell

Linux

brew install hunspell

Check the spelling of a file

hunspell path/to/file

Check the spelling of a file with the en_US dictionary

hunspell -d en_US path/to/file

List misspelled words in a file

hunspell -l path/to/file

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