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pyenchant

pyenchant

spellchecking library for python
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

pyenchant has 4.2M monthly downloads and 624 GitHub stars. Version 3.3.0 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2006.

It is stably maintained under a copyleft license, last released in Sep 2025.

It is used by 55 tracked packages, including sphinxcontrib-spelling, potypo and rpmlint.

Downloads
Day
133.9K
Week
959.3K
Month
4.2M
Stars
624
Forks
103
Issues
29
Version
3.3.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
59
Adoption
70
Community
50
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
33 days ago
Monthly downloads
4,171,724
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
4,171,724
Stars
624
Stars per 1k downloads
0.15
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
137,038
Month daily avg
139,057
Momentum
-1.5%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python 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
LGPL
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
295 days ago
Total releases
39
Releases/year
1.9
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
37
Monthly downloads
4,171,724
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
50
 
Issue Burden
46.5
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
35.9%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
262d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 113.9K
Windows 841
macOS 316

Python Versions

3.10
27.7% 30.9K
3.12
22.1% 24.6K
3.11
17.9% 20.0K
3.13
16.9% 18.8K
3.14
15.5% 17.3K

Top Countries

1. US US
109.1K
2. DE DE
1.7K
3. IL IL
1.6K
4. SG SG
914
5. IE IE
453
6. GB GB
189
7. CN CN
172
8. IN IN
150
9. FR FR
122
10. HK HK
98

Package Information

License
LGPL
First Release
January 9, 2006
Last Release
9 months ago
Last Commit
1 month ago
Latest Version
3.3.0
Total Releases
39
Contributors
37
Open PRs
1
Archived
No
Author
Dimitri Merejkowsky
Python Versions
3
Wheels
cp26 cp27 cp32 cp33 cp34 cp35 cp36 pp27 pp33 pp35 py2 py3
Keywords
spelling spellcheck enchant
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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