# client9/misspell

Correct commonly misspelled English words in source files

Repository: https://github.com/client9/misspell
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/misspell
Language: Go
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Archived: true
Last push: 2024-06-12T03:19:38+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3899, "days_push": 812, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1405, forks 145 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:38.122647+00:00)

## What it is
misspell is a fast Go-based CLI tool that finds and corrects commonly misspelled English words in source files, with special support for Go source and plain/markdown text. It can report misspellings with file/line/column, overwrite files with corrections, and convert between US and UK spellings.

## Use cases
- fix misspelled words in source files
- spell check markdown documentation
- add a spelling linter to CI
- convert British spellings to American English
- check spelling in Go source comments
- batch-correct typos across a repository

## When to choose
- you need a fast, dependency-free spell checker for code and docs
- you want automated typo fixes in CI pipelines
- you need US/UK locale-aware spelling correction

## When to avoid
- you need grammar checking or context-aware suggestions
- you need a full-featured spell checker with a custom dictionary UI
- you need support for non-English languages

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: maintenance
- function: cli, linter, developer-tools
- domain: developer-tools, documentation
- platform: cli, go, cross-platform, windows
- tags: spell-checker, misspellings, source-code, ci, text-correction, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- client9/misspell (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:38.122647+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:38:46.764980+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/client9/misspell (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:38.122647+00:00, sha e57a11715525)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.