Spellchecking

Get your spelling errors corrected!

Info

QOwnNotes has a builtin Dictionary Manager (in the Edit menu) which you can use to download dictionaries or delete them (if you are missing your language see below on how to request adding a dictionary). If you want to download the dictionaries manually, you can follow the instructions below.

• Under Linux you can install the Hunspell dictionaries for your language using your distro's pkg manager

  • If you need to add additional language files you can do so in ~/.local/share/hunspell or /usr/share/hunspell.
  • If you are using the Snap package of QOwnNotes you can also use ~/hunspell for language files, since the Snap can't access ~/.local

• Under Windows you need to copy Hunspell dictionaries for your language to a folder dicts in your QOwnNotes application folder or in C:\Users\[username]\dicts

  • You can download dictionaries from LibreOffice dictionaries (opens new window)
  • Under macOS you need to copy Hunspell dictionaries for your language to /Library/Spelling or ~/Library/Spelling. If the directory doesn't exist you need to create it.

Dictionaries can be downloaded from QOwnNotes dictionaries (opens new window). Use the table at the end of this document to find your language and its respective language code.

If the dictionary for your language is not in the Dictionary Manager or in the above mentioned link, please look for it on the internet or create an issue. We'll be sure to include it in the next release of QOwnNotes if the dictionary is found.

Info

If you can't find your language in this table then unfortunately a dictionary for it doesn't exist in the LibreOffice files - If you want to create a dictionary, go to the Documentfoundation.org Dictionaries Development (opens new window)

Sr	Language Code	Language
1	af_ZA	Afrikaans (South Africa)
2	an_ES	Aragonese - Spain (ES)
3	ar	Arabic
4	be_BY	Belarusian
5	bg_BG	Bulgarian
6	bn_BD	Bengali
7	bo	Tibetan
8	br_FR	Breton - France
9	bs_BA	Bosnian
10	ca	Catalan
11	cs_CZ	Czech
12	da_DK	Danish
13	de	German
14	el_GR	Greek
15	en	English
16	es	Spanish
17	et_EE	Estonian
18	gd_GB	Gaelic
19	gl	Galician
20	gu_IN	Gujarati
21	gug	Guarani
22	he_IL	Hebrew
23	hi_IN	Hindi
24	hr_HR	Croatian
25	id	Indonesian
26	it_IT	Italian
27	kmr_Latn	Kurdish (Turkey)
28	lo_LA	Lao
29	lt_LT	Lithuanian
30	lv_LV	Latvian
31	ne_NP	Nepali
32	nl_NL	Dutch
33	no	Norwegian
34	oc_FR	Occitan
35	pl_PL	Polish
36	pt_BR	Brazilian Portuguese
37	pt_PT	Portuguese
38	ro	Romanian
39	ru_RU	Russian
40	si_LK	Sinhalese
41	sk_SK	Slovak
42	sl_Sl	Slovenian
43	sq_AL	Albanian
44	sr	Serbian
45	sv_SE	Swedish
46	sw_TZ	Swahili
47	te_IN	Telugu
48	th_TH	Thai
49	tr_TR	Turkish
51	uk_UA	Ukrainian
52	vi	Vietnamese
53	zu_ZA	Zulu(spell dict not avail)

Credits

Sonnet (opens new window) with Hunspell (opens new window) is used for spellchecking