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Spell Check

Nucleus does not ship a spell-checking module. The ecosystem already has a native cross-platform solution for Kotlin.

PlatformSpellCheckerKt by @Wavesonics — a Kotlin Multiplatform wrapper over the native OS spell-check engines.

dependencies {
    implementation("com.darkrockstudios:platform-spellchecker:<version>")
}

val checker = PlatformSpellChecker()

val misspellings = checker.check("This is a sentance with errors")
// → [Misspelling(word = "sentance", suggestions = ["sentence", ...])]

What it covers

  • macOS — NSSpellChecker (the same engine as TextEdit and the system text fields)
  • Windows — Windows Spell Check API (ISpellChecker, available since Windows 8)
  • Linux — enchant / hunspell
  • Suggestions, language detection, and custom dictionary support

Why Nucleus doesn't ship this

Spell checking is a deep, locale-heavy domain that benefits from a focused, well-tested library. PlatformSpellCheckerKt already wraps the right native engines and has no JVM-specific limitations that Nucleus would need to work around.