Spell Checking Dictionaries

MocaccinoOS provides multilingual spell-checking dictionaries via the myspell-dicts package group.

These dictionaries are used by applications such as:

  • LibreOffice
  • Firefox and Chromium
  • Text editors (Kate, KWrite, etc.)
  • Other GTK and Qt applications with spell checking

Install all dictionaries

1
luet install app/myspel-dicts

This installs MySpell dictionaries for many languages, including:

Afrikaans, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, French, Irish, Galician, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Kazakh, Khmer, Lithuanian, Latvian, Macedonian, Malay, Norwegian (Bokmål/Nynorsk), Dutch, Polish, Portuguese (EU/BR), Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Ukrainian.

Usage

After installation, supported applications automatically detect available dictionaries.

In most applications you can select the language via:

Tools → Spell Checking Language
or
Right-click → Language

Notes

  • Dictionaries are provided system-wide
  • No configuration is required
  • Multiple languages can be installed simultaneously
  • The package group contains runtime data only (no development files)
Last modified February 22, 2026: rearange things in Internationalization (f3d4ca7)