ispell
Sign in to savethumb|Ispell suggesting words in Esperanto Ispell is a spelling checker for Unix that supports most Western languages. It offers several interfaces, including a programmatic interface for use by editors such as Emacs. Unlike GNU Aspell, ispell will only suggest corrections that are based on a Damerau–Levenshtein distance of 1; it will not attempt to guess more distant corrections based on English pronunciation rules.
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- Software.name
- Ispell
- Software.developer
- Geoff Kuenning
- Software.programming language
- C
- Software.operating system
- Cross-platform
- Software.genre
- Spell checker
- Software.license
- Open source
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- Instance of
- spell checker
- Official website
- www.cs.hmc.edu/~geoff/ispell.html
- Image
- Ispell aŭtonome 485.png
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- P275
- BSD licenses
- P366
- spell checker
- P277
- Q15777
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thumb|Ispell suggesting words in Esperanto Ispell is a spelling checker for Unix that supports most Western languages. It offers several interfaces, including a programmatic interface for use by editors such as Emacs. Unlike GNU Aspell, ispell will only suggest corrections that are based on a Damerau–Levenshtein distance of 1; it will not attempt to guess more distant corrections based on English pronunciation rules.
Ispell has a very long history that can be traced back to a program that was originally written in 1971 in PDP-10 Assembly language by R. E. Gorin, and later ported to the C programming language and expanded by many others. It is currently maintained by Geoff Kuenning. The generalized affix description system introduced by ispell has since been imitated by other spelling checkers such as MySpell.