libvoikko ☆

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Description:
Linguistic software and Finnish dictionary

Type: Formula | Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Other

Tags: linguistics finnish nlp spell-checking text-processing

Install: brew install libvoikko

About:
Libvoikko is a linguistic services library designed primarily for the Finnish language. It provides a comprehensive suite of spell checking, hyphenation, and grammar analysis capabilities. The library serves as a backend for various text processing applications, enabling robust language-aware features.

Key Features:

Finnish spell checking and hyphenation
Grammar checking capabilities
Morphological analysis
Language-independent C library interface

Use Cases:

Integrating Finnish language support into text editors
Building spell checkers for Finnish web applications
Automating Finnish text processing workflows

Alternatives:

Hunspell – Hunspell is a more general-purpose spell checker supporting multiple languages, whereas Libvoikko offers deeper linguistic analysis specifically for Finnish.
Aspell – Aspell is an older spell-checking system, while Libvoikko provides more advanced morphological features for Finnish.

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Sep 16, 2025 10:37am		0	VERSION_BUMP	f34576f7
Sep 13, 2024 2:08pm		0	VERSION_BUMP	a3aeebab