use SymSpell with hunspell dictionaries?

[danielnaber]

This is not really a bug report, sorry for using the issue tracker for this, but I'd like to see if someone has worked on this. Please point me to a better place if you know one:

Has anybody worked on using SymSpell with German hunspell dictionaries? German uses compounds, so you cannot just export a long list from the hunspell dictionaries and use them as input for SymSpell. The hunspell dictionary has special flags that indicate which words can be used in a compound, these would need to be considered somehow.

[wolfgarbe]

You could use the German dictionary from Aspell .
This is a plain word list. In order to add the word frequencies required by SymSpell you can combine/intersect it with Google Books Ngram data .
The required code to create such custom word frequency dictionaries you can find here: #15

That being said, making SymSpell compatible with hunspell dictionaries would be certainly useful. I will add this to the todo list.

[akaSourav]

Please add suffix and prefix support like Hunspell. It will be very useful. Hunspell dictionaries are pretty good and up to date.

[zephyrous]

Wolf, should we expect any update with regards to Hunspell dictionaries anytime soon? Thank you for your excellent work so far.