enchant-2(1)

Usage

enchant-2 {-a | -l | -h | -v [-L] [-d DICTIONARY] [FILE]}

Overview

Enchant is an Ispell-compatible spellchecker. Note that unlike Ispell, it does not have an interactive mode; it is designed to be used by other programs. Enchant requires its input to be UTF-8.

-d DICTIONARY: use the given dictionary

-p WORDLIST: use the given personal wordlist

-a: list suggestions in Ispell pipe mode format

-l: list only the misspellings

-L: display line numbers

-h: display help and exit

-v: display version information and exit

Ispell compatibility

Enchant does not implement the following Ispell commands and command-line options. They are all accepted, but ignored, and have no effect.

-m

-B

-C

+: Enter TeX mode

-: Enter nroff mode (the default)

~: Set parameters based on file name

`: Enter verbose-correction mode

Files and directories

See enchant(5) for details of configuration files and personal word lists.

Releases

4 releases since Debian 11 (Bullseye); the text changed 3 times.

-p since Debian 12 (Bookworm).

Referred to by

enchant(5) enchant language tags, ordering files and personal word lists