No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
codespell has 5.5M monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 2.4.2 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2016.
It is actively maintained under a copyleft license, last released in Mar 2026.
It is used by 19 tracked packages, including c2cciutils, crackerjack and openbb-nightly.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 118 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
74
Adoption
60
Community
90
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
4 days ago
Monthly downloads
5,502,637
•
Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
5,502,637
Stars
2,397
Stars per 1k downloads
0.44
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
•
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
161,789
Month daily avg
183,421
Momentum
-11.8%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.9
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
•
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
GPL-2.0-only
Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
•
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
123 days ago
Total releases
25
Releases/year
2.5
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
•
Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
219
Monthly downloads
5,502,637
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
•
Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
76
Issue Burden
78.4
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
42.2%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
118d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
82.0K
macOS
2.6K
Windows
2.1K
Python Versions
3.12
35.6%
27.4K
3.14
18.2%
14.0K
3.13
17.9%
13.8K
3.11
17.5%
13.5K
3.10
10.8%
8.3K
Top Countries
1.
US
66.9K
US
2.
IN
7.8K
IN
3.
DE
3.2K
DE
4.
SG
1.8K
SG
5.
NL
936
NL
6.
IE
813
IE
7.
JP
571
JP
8.
AU
534
AU
9.
GB
480
GB
10.
HK
449
HK
Dependencies
0
17 optional dependencies
- build[dev]
- chardet[dev]
- chardet[hard-encoding-detection]
- chardet[types]
- mypy[types]
- pre-commit[dev]
- pygments[dev]
- pytest[dev]
- pytest[types]
- pytest-cov[dev]
- pytest-cov[types]
- pytest-dependency[dev]
- pytest-dependency[types]
- ruff[dev]
- tomli[dev]
- tomli[toml]
- twine[dev]
Package Information
License
GPL-2.0-only
First Release
June 9, 2016
Last Release
4 months ago
Last Commit
4 days ago
Latest Version
2.4.2
Total Releases
25
Contributors
219
Open PRs
62
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh