ispell ☆

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Description:
International Ispell

Type: Formula | Latest Version: 3.4.06@0 | Tracked Since: Nov 9, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Productivity

Tags: spelling terminal text-processing utility cli

Install: brew install ispell

About:
Ispell is a screen-oriented spelling checker that highlights errors directly in the terminal. It supports multiple languages and offers interactive correction suggestions. The tool is widely used for checking plain text documents, code comments, and email composition.

Key Features:

Interactive terminal interface for error correction
Multi-language dictionary support
Context-aware suggestion algorithm
Support for TeX and troff/nroff markup

Use Cases:

Checking spelling in source code comments and documentation
Reviewing and correcting plain text documents
Composing emails with spell checking

Alternatives:

hunspell – More modern spell checker with improved morphology and dictionary format, often used in GUI applications
aspell – GNU spell checker with better handling of affix compression and more extensive dictionary support

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Nov 9, 2025 10:42am		0	VERSION_BUMP	9416150a
Sep 14, 2024 9:21am		0	VERSION_BUMP	b5d60e4f