Spell Checking
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Sublime Text uses Hunspell for its spell checking support. Additional dictionaries can be obtained from the OpenOffice.org Extension List.

Dictionaries in a format ready to be used by Sublime Text are available at https://github.com/titoBouzout/Dictionaries.

Dictionaries🔗

Sublime Text currently only supports UTF-8 encoded dictionaries. Most dictionaries are not encoded in UTF-8, instead using a more compact encoding for the language in question. To use a dictionary with Sublime Text, it’ll first need to be converted into UTF-8.

Once you have a UTF-8 encoded dictionary, it can be installed by placing it in a package, for example, Packages/User/, which you can access from the Preferences ▶ Browse Packages menu item. Once the file is in place, you can select the dictionary from the View ▶ Dictionary menu.

Settings🔗

There are two Settings that effect the spell checking: spell_check, which controls if spell checking is enabled, and dictionary, which gives the path to the dictionary file to use. For example:

"spell_check" boolean🔗

If spell checking is enabled.

Default: false

"dictionary" string🔗

The package-relative path to the dictionary file.

Default: "Packages/Language - English/en_US.dic"

"added_words" array of strings🔗

An array of properly spelled words to augment the dictionary with.

Example: ["unobscurable"]

"ignored_words" array of strings🔗

An array of words to ignore when checking spelling.

Example: ["revelationary"]

Commands🔗

  • next_misspelling: Select the next misspelling

  • prev_misspelling: Select the previous misspelling

  • add_word: Adds the word given by the word argument to the add list

  • ignore_word: Adds the word given by the word argument to the ignore list