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Hunspell Spellchecker

by delonborges
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  • Dexter Bravo
    Reviewed on Aug 25th, 2026
    I've been looking for a replacement for the built-in spellcheck, and this plugin is not good yet. For some reason the only English dictionary available in this plugin is for Australian English (not a big deal on its own, I can just add the American spellings of certain words to my personal dictionary). The bigger issue is that it doesn't recognize my curly apostrophes, so it thinks every contraction is a misspelled word. The final nail in the coffin was that the red underlines disappeared for me after about five minutes of scrolling through a note and I couldn't figure out how to get them back, even after closing and reopening the note. At that point, the plugin was completely useless. I tried raising these points as issues on GitHub, but the dev has restricted the creation of new issues which is why I'm writing here instead.

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Latest Version

1.2.1
2 months ago

Changelog

Fixed

  • Refactored UI components to use CSS classes instead of inline styles, adhering to Obsidian's best practices and resolving linter warnings.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/delonborges/obsidian-hunspell-spellchecker/compare/1.2.0...1.2.1

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Hunspell Spellchecker for Obsidian

A high-performance, offline spellchecker for Obsidian using standard Hunspell dictionaries (.aff and .dic files).

Features

  • Offline by Design: All spellchecking happens locally on your device. No data is ever sent to external servers.
  • Multiple Languages: Download and manage multiple language dictionaries directly within the plugin settings.
  • Performance: Optimized to run smoothly even on large documents without causing typing lag.
  • Personal Dictionary: Add custom words via right-click to prevent them from being flagged in the future.
  • Ignored Words: Temporarily ignore words within your vault.
  • Smart Capitalization: The plugin now respects the original capitalization of words added to your personal dictionary or ignored words list.
  • Interactive Status Bar:
    • Quickly see the active language.
    • View the number of misspelled words currently visible on your screen.
    • Click the active language to open settings.
    • Click the error count (🔴) to see a dropdown list of misspelled words. Click any word in the list to jump directly to it in your text!

Installation

From Obsidian Community Plugins

  1. Open Obsidian Settings.
  2. Go to Community plugins and turn off "Safe mode".
  3. Click Browse and search for "Hunspell Spellchecker".
  4. Install and enable the plugin.

Manual Installation

  1. Download the latest release from the Releases page.
  2. Extract the contents (main.js, manifest.json, styles.css) into your vault's .obsidian/plugins/obsidian-hunspell-spellchecker folder.
  3. Reload Obsidian and enable the plugin in Settings > Community plugins.

Usage

  1. Open the plugin settings.
  2. Scroll to Download Languages and click "Fetch available languages".
  3. Find your desired language in the list and click Install.
  4. Once installed, select it from the Active language dropdown at the top.
  5. Misspelled words will now have a red squiggly line underneath them.
  6. Right-click a misspelled word to see suggestions, add it to your dictionary, or ignore it.

Contributing

Contributions, issues, and feature requests are welcome!

License

MIT License

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