MySpell is a simple spell checker that uses affix compression and is modelled after the spell checker ispell. MySpell was written to explore how affix compression can be implemented. The Main features of MySpell are: 1. written in C++ to make it easier to interface with Pspell, OpenOffice, AbiWord, etc 2. it is stateless, uses no static variables and should be completely reentrant with almost no ifdefs 3. it tries to be as compatible with ispell to the extent it can. It can read slightly modified versions of munched ispell dictionaries (and it comes with a munched english wordlist borrowed from Kevin Atkinson's excellent Aspell. 4. it uses a heavily modified aff file format that can be derived from ispell aff files but uses the iso-8859-X character sets only 5. it is simple with *lots* of comments that describes how the affixes are stored and tested for (based on the approach used by ispell). 6. it supports improved suggestions with replacement tables and ngram-scoring based mechanisms in addition to the main suggestion mechanisms 7. like ispell it has a BSD license (and no advertising clause) But ... it has *no* support for adding words to a personal dictionary, *no* support for converting between various text encodings, and *no* command line interface (it is purely meant to be a library). It can not (in any way) replace all of the functionality of ispell or aspell/pspell. It is meant as a learning tool for understanding affix compression and for being used by front ends like OpenOffice, Abiword, etc. MySpell has been tested under Linux and Solaris and has the world's simplest Makefile and no configure support. It does come with a simple example program that spell checks some words and returns suggestions. To build a static library and an example program under Linux simply type: tar -zxvf myspell.tar.gz cd myspell2 make To run the example program: ./example ./en_US.aff ./en_US.dic checkme.lst Please play around with it and let me know what you think. Please see the file CONTRIBUTORS for more info.