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CSpellA Spell Checker for Code!

Lightning Fast

Optimized for performance to handle large codebases with thousands of files. Spell check your entire project in seconds.

Multi-Language

Built-in and add-on dictionaries for dozens of programming and human languages are available. Extensible with custom word lists and dictionaries.

Works Everywhere

VS Code extension, CLI tool, ESLint plugin. Integrate into your editor, CI/CD pipeline, or build process.

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cspell-cli — cspell-cli is useful for including cspell directly from GitHub.

Example install: npm install -g git+https://github.com/streetsidesoftware/cspell-cli

This will add the cspell-cli command, which is an alias of the cspell command.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! See our contribution notes.

Note: To add or remove words in a dictionary, visit cspell-dicts.

🙏 Special thanks to all of our amazing contributors! 🥰

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