# ENCHANT-2

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
ISPELL COMPATIBILITY
FILES AND DIRECTORIES
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR

## NAME

Enchant - a spellchecker

## SYNOPSIS

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

## DESCRIPTION

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.

## SEE ALSO

enchant(5), aspell(1), enchant-lsmod-2(1)

## AUTHOR

Written by Dom Lachowicz and Reuben Thomas.