Hun­spell Spell Check, Hyphen­ation and Th­e­saurus Dic­tionar­ies

Hun­spell is used in many projects, there­fore the dic­tio­nar­ies are widely spread and it can be a mess to find the new­est ones. Here are web sites and di­rect links to Hun­spell dic­tio­nar­ies.

Hun­spell, Hyphen and MyThes Dic­tionary Files

The Hun­spell dic­tio­nar­ies are of­ten dis­trib­uted in pack­ages which are in fact Zip files. If yo want to use them you must ex­tract the dic­tio­nar­ies.

Hun­spell

The spell checker Hun­spell needs two files:
Dic­tionary file with .DIC ex­ten­sion (e.g. en_us.dic)
Af­fix file with .AFF ex­ten­sion (e.g. en_us.aff)

Hyphen

The hy­phen­ator Hyphen needs one file:
Dic­tionary File with .DIC ex­ten­sion (e.g. hyph_en_us.dic)
To dis­tin­guish be­tween Hun­spell and Hyphen dic­tio­nar­ies, the Hyphen dic­tio­nary names start with 'hyph_' by con­ven­tion.

MyThes

The the­saurus MyThes needs two files:
Data file with .DAT ex­ten­sion (e.g. th_en_us.dat)
In­dex file with .IDX ex­ten­sion (e.g. th_en_us.idx)

Web Sites with Hun­spell Dic­tionar­ies

Open Of­fice Dic­tionar­ies

Open Of­fice pro­vides two main re­sources for dic­tio­nar­ies. The dic­tio­nary ex­ten­sions for Open Of­fice ver­sion 3.0 and above and the older dic­tio­nar­ies for Open Of­fice 2.x/>

Open Of­fice (v3) Dic­tionary Ex­ten­sions

In fact the Open Of­fice ex­ten­sion files (.OXT) are Zip files. To get the dic­tio­nar­ies you must un­zip the .OXT file.

Open Of­fice (v2) Dic­tionar­ies

Fire­fox Dic­tionar­ies

Fire­fox Dic­tionary Add-ons

The Fire­fox add-ons (.XPI) are in fact Zip files. To get the dic­tio­nar­ies you must un­zip the .XPI file.

Thun­der­bird Dic­tionar­ies

The Thun­der­bird add-ons (.XPI) are in fact Zip files. To get the dic­tio­nar­ies you must un­zip the .XPI file.