Yiddish spell checker (YIVO)

Spellchecking dictionary for Yiddish language.

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The Yiddish spell checker (YIVO) was created and is actualised by Simcha Taub of the ייִדיש לעבט project. It is a side effect of the works on creating the Yiddish language corpus.

Yiddish spell checker contains entries in standard YIVO orthography and is compatible with the previously developed specification, which assumes not using typographic ligatures in the simple text because of their special functions. This specification is currently used and respected by the majority of scientific institutions and Yiddish language publishing houses.

First versions of the spell checker, which were unnumbered and weren’t widely spread, were based partly on Raphael A. Finkel’s MySpell dictionary available under LGPLv2+, GPLv2+ or MPLv1.1 licenses.

The spell checker is developed and distributed in three versions: as pure Hunspell files and Mozilla and OpenOffice packages with the same version number. Each of them is available under double licenses: GPLv3+ and Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0.

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By:: joystick
Daily users:: 13
Rating:: 5.00

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Version:: 0.0.3.3resigned1 Last updated: 2024-04-25
Version code:: 5726003
Creation date:: 2010-08-31
Risk:: Very low risk impact Moderate risk likelihood
Size:: 314.13KB
Full description:: See detailed description
Source:: Firefox Browser Add-ons
Data ingested on:: 2025-07-12

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# 24,770 ▲ 16

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#59 in spelling checker keyword 47 ▲ 1 #116 in spell checker keyword 47 #121 in spelling keyword 51 ▼ 3 #156 in checker keyword 59 ▼ 1

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Yiddish spell checker (YIVO) does not require any sensitive permissions.

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