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pyspellchecker

Pure Python Spell Checking http://pyspellchecker.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

pyspellchecker has 1.4M monthly downloads and 784 GitHub stars. Version 0.9.0 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2018.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Mar 2026.

It is used by 85 tracked packages, including demisto-sdk, omniopt2 and splicecraft.

GitHub topics include spellcheck, spellchecker and levenshtein-distance.

Downloads
Day
57.2K
Week
374.5K
Month
1.4M
Stars
784
Forks
163
Issues
6
Version
0.9.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
62
Adoption
90
Community
50
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
15 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,410,007
• 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
1,410,007
Stars
784
Stars per 1k downloads
0.56
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
53,504
Month daily avg
47,000
Momentum
+13.8%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
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
MIT
• 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
122 days ago
Total releases
34
Releases/year
4.1
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
18
Monthly downloads
1,410,007
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
63
 
Issue Burden
7.7
per 1k stars
Discussions
12.8
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
11.0%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
106d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 41.5K
Windows 3.2K
macOS 2.9K

Python Versions

3.12
31.1% 13.8K
3.9
30.9% 13.7K
3.13
24.3% 10.8K
3.11
8.7% 3.8K
3.10
5.0% 2.2K

Top Countries

1. US US
43.5K
2. NL NL
926
3. GB GB
712
4. SG SG
411
5. IN IN
342
6. IE IE
228
7. DE DE
206
8. FR FR
142
9. BR BR
115
10. RU RU
104
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
February 24, 2018
Last Release
4 months ago
Last Commit
2 weeks ago
Latest Version
0.9.0
Total Releases
34
Contributors
18
Open PRs
2
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
python spelling natural language processing nlp typo checker
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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