Hunspell Spell Checker

Hunspell is automatically selected as the default spell checker in SDL Trados Studio.

Hunspell Spell Checker features

Using Hunspell you can:

  • Work with custom dictionaries in SDL Trados Studio.
  • Use the Ignore all list.

For more information about Hunspell spell checker, see the Hunspell homepage.

Supported Hunspell dictionaries

SDL Trados Studio contains Hunspell dictionaries for a number of languages, as shown in the following table.

The table contains a list of the standard dictionary files in the Hunspell sub-folder of the SDL Trados Studio program folder. The naming format is: <language>_<country>.dic.

You can also create and add custom dictionaries to SDL Trados Studio.

af_ZA.dic

ar.dic

az-Latn-AZ.dic

bg_BG.dic

ca_ES.dic

cs_CZ.dic

cy_GB.dic

da_DK.dic

de_AT.dic

de_CH.dic

de_DE.dic

de_DE_comb.dic

de_DE_neu.dic

de_frami_neu.dic

el_GR.dic

en_AU.dic

en_CA.dic

en_GB.dic

en_NZ.dic

en_US.dic

en_ZA.dic

es_ES.dic

es_MX.dic

et_EE.dic

eu-ES.dic

fa.dic

fa_IR.dic

fo_FO.dic

fr_FR-1990.dic

fr_FR.dic

gl_ES.dic

he_IL.dic

hi_IN.dic

hr_HR.dic

hu_HU.dic

hy_AM.dic

id_ID.dic

is_IS.dic

it_IT.dic

lt_LT.dic

lv_LV.dic

mi_NZ.dic

mn_MN.dic

mr_IN.dic

ms_MY.dic

nb_NO.dic

nl_NL.dic

nn_NO.dic

ns_ZA.dic

pl_PL.dic

pt_BR.dic

ro_RO.dic

ru_RU.dic

sk_SK.dic

sl_SI.dic

sv_SE.dic

sw_KE.dic

th_TH.dic

tn_ZA.dic

uk_UA.dic

xh_ZA.dic

zu_ZA.dic

Hunspell Dictionary format

A dictionary is a text file. It has one word per line, in alphabetical order. The first line of the file is the number of words.

The text file must be in UTF-8 format. To find out how to change to UTF-8 format, refer to the documentation for your text editor.