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SCOWL is the basis for the official English dictionary in Aspell and
the en_US and en_CA dictionary in Hunspell.  Dictionaries for British
English are also available for Hunspell.

* Official Hunspell Dictionaries: 
  [readme](/hunspell-readme),
  <a href="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/wordlist/hunspell-en_US-2014.08.11.zip">en_US</a>,
  <a href="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/wordlist/hunspell-en_US-2014.08.11.zip">en_CA</a>
  (2014-08-11) 
* [Additional Hunspell Dictionaries](https://sourceforge.net/projects/wordlist/files/speller/2014.08.11)
  including ones for British English. 
* <a href="http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/dict/en/">Aspell Dictionaries</a>

You can use this [simple web app](http://app.aspell.net/lookup) to
check if a word is in the latest dictionary.

If none of the these dictionaries are suitable to your needs you can
create your own from the information in SCOWL using this [simple
tool](http://app.aspell.net/create).

[Other English Dictionaries](/other-dicts)
