---
name: "spelldump"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "sphinxsearch"
version: "2.2.11-8+b4"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/spelldump"
---

# spelldump(1)

Sphinxsearch tool for extract the contents of a dictionary file.

## NAME

spelldump - Sphinxsearch tool for extract the contents of a dictionary file.

## SYNOPSIS

**spelldump** \[OPTIONS\] dictionary affix \[result\] \[locale-name\]

## DESCRIPTION

Sphinx is a collection of programs that aim to provide high quality fulltext search.

spelldump is used to extract the contents of a dictionary file that uses ispell or MySpell format, which can help build word lists for wordforms - all of the possible forms are pre-built for you.

The two main parameters are the dictionary's main file and its affix file; usually these are named as \[language-prefix\].dict and \[language-prefix\].aff and will be available with most common Linux distributions, as well as various places online. **\[result\]** specifies where the dictionary data should be output to, and **\[locale-name\]** additionally specifies the locale details you wish to use.

Examples of its usage are:

```
spelldump en.dict en.aff
spelldump ru.dict ru.aff ru.txt ru_RU.CP1251
spelldump ru.dict ru.aff ru.txt .1251
```

The results file will contain a list of all the words in the dictionary in alphabetical order, output in the format of a wordforms file, which you can use to customise for your specific circumstances.

An example of the result file:

```
zone > zone
zoned > zoned
zoning > zoning
```

## OPTIONS

- **-c** *\[FILE\]*

  specifies a file for case conversion details.

## AUTHOR

Andrey Aksenoff (shodan@sphinxsearch.com). This manual page is written by Alexey Vinogradov (klirichek@sphinxsearch.com). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

## SEE ALSO

[**indexer**(1)](/indexer/1.md), [**indextool**(1)](/indextool/1.md).

Sphinx and it's programs are documented fully by the *Sphinx reference manual* available in /usr/share/doc/sphinxsearch.