A .NET port of Hunspell for .NET and .NET Core

Download and install with NuGet: Hunspell.NetCore

• Reads Hunspell DIC and AFF file formats
• Supports checking and suggesting words
• Ported to fully managed C#
• Confusing LGPL, GPL, MPL tri-license
• Compatible with .NET Core
• Compatible with multiple .NET framework versions
• Uses .NET to handle cultures and encodings

"It's complicated"

Read the license: LICENSE

This library was ported from the original Hunspell source and as a result is licensed under an MPL, LGPL, and GPL tri-license. Read the LICENSE file to be sure you can use this library.

using Hunspell;

namespace ConsoleApp1
{
    public class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            var hunspell = HunspellDictionary.FromFile(@"English (British).dic");
            bool notOk = hunspell.Check("teh");
            var suggestions = hunspell.Suggest("teh");
            bool ok = hunspell.Check("the");
        }
    }
}

To know how up to date this port is, check the hunspell-origin submodule.

"Good enough I guess"

The performance of this port while not fantastic relative to the original binaries and NHunspell is definitely acceptable. If you need better performance you should check out NHunspell.

Note: Measurements taken on a Intel 6700K with a 850 PRO 256GB.