@nornagon/spellchecker

SpellChecker Node Module

Native bindings to NSSpellChecker, Hunspell, or the Windows 8 Spell Check API, depending on your platform. Windows 7 and below as well as Linux will rely on Hunspell.

Installing

npm install spellchecker

Using

SpellChecker = require 'spellchecker'

SpellChecker.isMisspelled(word)

Check if a word is misspelled.

word - String word to check.

Returns true if the word is misspelled, false otherwise.

SpellChecker.getCorrectionsForMisspelling(word)

Get the corrections for a misspelled word.

word - String word to get corrections for.

Returns a non-null but possibly empty array of string corrections.

SpellChecker.add(word)

Adds a word to the dictionary. When using Hunspell, this will not modify the .dic file; new words must be added each time the spellchecker is created. Use a custom dictionary file.

word - String word to add.

Returns nothing.