Dictionaries

This page lists spell checker dictionaries, hyphenation files, and thesauri for OpenOffice.org.

To install a new dictionary, call "File -> Wizards -> Install new dictionaries" in OpenOffice.org. Then exit and re-start OpenOffice.org, including the Quickstarter (if used). Most of the files on this page are available for installation via the wizard. If not, download the Pack file, and use the "off-line language installation" option of DicOOo wizard.

You are free to add other resources, but please note that files which are supposed to be installable using OpenOffice.org's integrated wizard (DicOOo) need to be hosted on the official server (ftp.services.openoffice.org). Please contact the lingucomponent mailing list or dnaber at openoffice org to upload your files there.

All Language Packs: PackFull V2 (40MB) 2006-09-28
Download the PackFull_v2.zip if you want to redistribute all available dictionaries in your network.

More information on the file formats of dictionaries can be found on the Lingucomponent Project homepage.

Afrikaans (South Africa)

• Spelling 2006-01-17
• Pack 2006-01-17
• Spelling, Pack, Word lists (Experimental/Development)

Amharic (Ethiopia)

• Spelling 2004-12-28

Arabic (North Africa and Middle East)

• Spelling (Simple word list) 2006-03-29
• Spelling (Conversion of Buckwalter's Arabic morphological analyser) 2006-02-08

Azerbaijani (Azerbaijan)

• Spelling 2004-08-17

Bengali (India)

• Spelling 2004-08-24

Bulgarian (Bulgaria)

• Spelling 2004-04-05
• Hyphenation 2004-04-02
• Pack 2003-11-05

Catalan (Spain)

• Spelling 2002-10-15
• Pack 2002-10-15

Chichewa (Malawi)

• Spelling 2005-01-08

Coptic (North Africa)

• Spelling 2006-05-29

Croatian (Croatia)

• Spelling 2006-06-07
• Pack 2006-06-07

Czech (Czech Republic)

• Spelling 2003-01-01
• Hyphenation 2003-12-27
• Thesaurus 2004-08-20
• Pack 2004-08-20

Danish (Denmark)

• Spelling 2005-03-30
• Hyphenation 2004-04-02
• Pack 2005-02-10

Dutch (Netherlands)

• Spelling 2005-06-17
• Hyphenation 2005-06-17
• Pack 2003-10-12

English (United Kingdom, ...)

• Spelling:
  • English (United Kingdom) 2004-02-08
  • English (United States) 2004-06-23
  • English (Australia) 2003-03-29. Latest spell check dictionary files available from link at the bottom of the main page of JustLocal http://www.JustLocal.com.au. (Also files for Firefox, Thunderbird, NVU and other projects.)
  • English (Canada) 2002-03-15
  • English (New Zealand) 2002-05-18
  • English (South Africa) 2006-01-20
• Hyphenation:
  • English (United Kingdom) 2002-07-27
  • English (United States) 2002-07-27
  • English (Canada) 2002-07-27
  • English (Australia) Latest version available from link at the bottom of the main page of JustLocal http://www.JustLocal.com.au.
• Thesaurus:
  • English (United States & United Kingdom), requires OpenOffice.org 2.x or later, 2006-03-06
  • English (Australia) Latest version available from link at the bottom of the main page of JustLocal http://www.JustLocal.com.au.
• Pack 2003-11-05

Esperanto (anywhere)

• Spelling 2004-11-29
• Pack 2004-11-29

Estonian (Estonia)

• Spelling 2003-06-02
• Hyphenator

Faroese (Faroe Islands)

• Spelling 2005-03-07
• Pack 2005-01-15

Fijian (Fiji)

• See iosn.net 2005-08-11

Finnish (Finland)

• Spelling 2002-11-20
• Hyphenation 2004-04-10
• Pack 2004-04-11

French (France, ...)

• Spelling:
  • French (Belgium) 2003-06-19
  • French (France) 2002-06-08
  • French (France) Réforme 1990 2006-09-15

• Hyphenation:
  • French (France) 2002-07-27
  • French (Belgium) 2003-06-19
• Thesaurus:
  • French Thesaurus, requires OpenOffice.org 2.x or later, 2005-06-09
• Pack 2005-06-09

Friulian (FUR - spoken in north-east Italy)

• Spelling 2005-09-12 home page

Fula (West Africa)

• Spelling 2005-10-13

Galician (Spain)

• Spelling 2006-10-02 Hunspell version. Home page
• Pack 2006-10-02 Hunspell version. Home page

German (Germany, ...)

• Spelling:

The new orthography dictionary with compound word support is shipped with OpenOffice.org since version 2.0.2. Its quality currently suffers from hunspell bug 1592880 and the OpenOffice.org issue 64400. If you have the latest version of OpenOffice.org there is usually no need to install new dictionaries for German language but there are some available, also for old versions of OpenOffice.org:

• Spelling Dictionaries:
  • German (Germany, Switzerland, Austria) by Björn Jacke latest snapshots of the hunspell dictionary derived from igerman98, requires OpenOffice.org 2.0.2 or higher.
  • German (Germany) by Franz Michael Baumann, requires OpenOffice.org 2.0.2 or later, this is a modified version of the dictionary shipped with OpenOffice.org 2.0.2, 2006-12-14
  • German (Germany) by Björn Jacke This is a dictionary in myspell format used up to OpenOffice.org 2.0.1, 2003-06-17
  • German (Austria) by Björn Jacke This is a dictionary in myspell format used up to OpenOffice.org 2.0.1, 2003-08-16
  • German (Switzerland) by Björn Jacke This is a dictionary in myspell format used up to OpenOffice.org 2.0.1, 2003-02-28
  • German (Germany - mit Komposita, alte & neue Rechtschreibung) by Eleonora This is a dictionary in myspell format used up to OpenOffice.org 2.0.1, 2005-06-10
  • German (Germany - mit Komposita, neue Rechtschreibung) by Eleonora This is a dictionary in myspell format used up to OpenOffice.org 2.0.1, 2005-06-10
• Hyphenation:
  • German (Germany) 2002-07-27
  • German (Switzerland) 2002-07-27
• Thesaurus (get the latest version from OpenThesaurus):
  • German (Germany), requires OpenOffice.org 2.x or later, 2006-02-20
  • German (Switzerland), requires OpenOffice.org 2.x or later, 2006-02-20
• Pack 2005-11-02

Greek (Greece)

• Spelling 2004-12-20
• Hyphenation 2005-10-18
• Pack 2004-09-01

Hebrew (Israel)

• Spelling 2005-01-12

Hindi (India)

• Spelling 2005-01-27
• HindiWriter includes a Hindi Spell Checker(engine and dictionary) that works with OpenOffice.org 2.0 for Windows.

Hungarian (Hungary)

• Spelling:
  • Hungarian requires OpenOffice.org 2.0.2 or later, 2006-07-27
  • Hungarian_2 requires OpenOffice.org 2.0.2 or later, 2006-11-05. This dictionary contains around 700 thousand manually collected compound words.
  • Hungarian 2004-04-02
• Hyphenation 2006-08-22
• Thesaurus 2003-09-29, NOTE: works with OpenOffice.org 1.x only!
• Pack:
  • Pack 2006-07-27
  • Pack 2004-04-02

Icelandic (Iceland)

• Spelling 2006-09-28
• Hyphenation 2003-09-20
• Pack 2006-09-28

Indonesian (Indonesia)

• Spelling 2004-04-10
• Hyphenation 2004-04-06
• Pack 2004-04-10

Interlingua (x-register)

• Spelling 2003-08-07
• Hyphenation 2005-03-07
• Pack 2003-08-07

Irish (Ireland)

• Spelling (version 4.1, 2006-07-31) home page
• Hyphenation (version 1.0, 2004-02-20) home page
• Pack (2006-07-31)

Italian (Italy)

• Spelling:
  • Italian dictionary (dizionario italiano) (2.3 beta 2006-07-23) home page
  • Italian surname dictionary (dizionario dei cognomi italiani) (1.02 2006-08-20) home page

• Hyphenation 2003-08-09

• Thesaurus:
  • Thesaurus OOo 2.x (2.02.b 2006-12-08) - only for OpenOffice.org >= 2.0 home page
  • Thesaurus OOo 1.1.x (1.00 2005-07-26) - only for OpenOffice.org 1.1.x home page
    • Thesaurus source (1.00 2005-07-26) - only for OOo 1.1.x home page
    • ThesCoder 0.60, program to make the OOo 1.1.x thesaurus binary home page

• Pack OOo 2.x (1.1 beta 2007-01-07) - only for OOo >= 2.0 home page
• Pack OOo 1.1.x (1.1 beta 2006-07-23) - only for OOo 1.1.x home page

Jula (West Africa)

• Spelling 2005-10-13

Kashubian (Poland)

• Spelling 2005-03-04

Khmer (Cambodia)

• Spelling 2006-09-01

Kinyarwanda (Rwanda)

• Spelling 2005-01-08

Kiswahili (East Africa)

• Spelling (extended word list) 2005-08-19
• Spelling 2004-05-16
• Pack 2004-05-16

Kurdish (Turkey)

• Spelling 2005-01-21
• Pack 2005-01-21

Latin (x-register)

• Spelling:
  • mlatin 2006-02-02 by Jean-Pierre Sutto (GPL)
  • COL1.0ß 2006-01-27 by Marjorie Burghart
• Pack 2002-05-05

Latvian (Latvia)

• Spelling v.0.7 2006-11-21

Lithuanian (Lithuania)

• Spelling 2003-12-31
• Hyphenation 2004-01-10
• Pack 2004-04-05

Luxembourgish (Luxembourg)

• Pack Notes: development version, updated regularly, needs OOo >= 2.0.2

Malagasy (Madagascar)

• Spelling 2005-01-08

Malay (Malaysia)

• Spelling 2005-01-17
• Pack 2005-01-17

Maori (New Zealand)

• Spelling 2003-09-09
• Pack 2003-09-09

Marathi (India)

• Spelling 2006-09-26
• Pack 2006-09-26

Mongolian (Mongolia)

• Spelling 2004-07-26

Mòoré (Burkina Faso)

• Spelling 2005-09-18

Nedebele (South) (South Africa)

• Spelling 2006-01-20
• Pack 2006-01-20
• Spelling, Pack, Word lists (Experimental/Development)

Nepali (Nepal)

• Spelling 2006-10-17
• Thesaurus requires OpenOffice.org 2.x or later, 2006-12-20

Northern Sotho (South Africa)

• Spelling 2006-01-20
• Spelling, Pack, Word lists (Experimental/Development)

Norwegian (Norway)

• Spelling:
  • Norwegian Bokmaal (Norway) 2005-03-15
  • Norwegian Nynorsk (Norway) 2005-01-12
• Pack 2005-01-12

Oriya (India)

• Spelling 2005-01-25

Persian (Iran)

• Spelling 2004-11-03

Polish (Poland)

• Spelling 2006-12-02
• Hyphenation 2006-07-26
• Thesaurus requires OpenOffice.org 2.x or later, 2006-12-23
• Pack 2006-12-23
• Thesaurus only for OpenOffice.org 1.x, 2006-12-23

Portuguese (Portugal + Brasil)

• Spelling:
  • Portuguese (Portugal) 2006-10-26
  • Portuguese (Brazil) 2006-10-17
• Hyphenation:
  • Portuguese (Portugal) 2002-10-21
  • Portuguese (Brazil) 2002-10-21
• Pack 2003-12-30

Punjabi (India)

• Spelling 2005-01-25

Quetchua (Bolivia)

• Pack (Spelling) 2006-09-28

Romanian (Romania)

• Spelling 2005-02-27
• Hyphenation 2005-02-21
• Pack 2004-04-05

Russian (Russia)

• Spelling:
  • Russian (Russia) 2004-04-06
  • Russian ye (Russia) 2003-09-11
  • Russian yo (Russia) 2004-04-06
• Hyphenation 2002-07-27
• Thesaurus 2006-10-16
• Pack 2004-04-06

Scottish Gaelic (Scotland)

• Spelling 2005-01-08

Serbian (Serbia, Republic Srpska)

• Serbian Pack (Spelling) 2006-10-18
• Wizard DicOOo.sxw 2006-10-18

Setswana (Africa)

• Spelling 2004-05-16
• Pack 2004-05-16
• Spelling (Experimental) 2006-01-23
• Pack (Experimental) 2006-01-23
• Spelling, Pack, Word lists (Experimental/Development)

Slovak (Slovakia)

• Spelling 2005-02-28
• Hyphenation 2003-12-27
• Thesaurus
• Pack 2004-01-16

Slovenian (Slovenia)

• Spelling 2002-10-08
• Hyphenation 2002-10-03
• Pack 2002-10-08

Southern Sotho (South Africa)

• Spelling 2006-01-20
• Spelling, Pack, Word lists (Experimental/Development)

Spanish (Spain, ...)

• Spelling:
  • Spanish (Spain-etal) 2005-05-10
  • Spanish (Mexico) 2005-05-05
  • Math_es_ES 2004-04-05
• Hyphenation 2004-08-10
• Pack 2005-01-18

Swazi/Swati (South Africa)

• Spelling 2006-07-05
• Spelling, Pack, Word lists (Experimental/Development)

Swedish (Sweden)

• Spelling 2003-08-14
• Hyphenation 2003-08-14
• Pack 2003-08-14

Tagalog (Philippines)

• Spelling 2005-01-08

Tamil (India)

• Spelling 2004-08-25

Tetum (Indonesia)

• Spelling 2005-01-08

Thai (Thailand)

• Spelling 2005-09-20

Tsonga (South Africa)

• Spelling 2006-01-23
• Spelling, Pack, Word lists (Experimental/Development)

Ukrainian (Ukraine)

• Spelling 2005-11-10
• Hyphenation 2005-03-07
• Pack 2003-10-16

Urdu (Pakistan)

• Spelling 2007-01-26

Uzbek (Uzbekistan)

• Spelling (Cyrillic) 2005-04-27

Venda (South Africa)

• Spelling 2006-07-06
• Spelling, Pack, Word lists (Experimental/Development)

Vietnamese (Vietnam)

• Spelling 2004-08-24

Wayunaiki (Venezuela)

• Spelling (Experimental/Development) 2006-??-??

Welsh (Wales)

• Spelling 2004-04-25
• Pack 2004-04-28

Xhosa (South Africa)

• Spelling 2006-01-23
• Spelling, Pack, Word lists (Experimental/Development)

Zulu (Africa)

• Spelling 2006-01-20
• Spelling, Pack, Word lists (Experimental/Development)