Welcome to the HySpell Armenian Language and Cultural site

Lexicon Base

The lexicon of HySpell Spell-checker consists over 158,000 Armenian root words. It is based on Stepanos Malkhasianz and Edvard Aghayan prolific multi-volume dictionaries, as well as, the much older Haygaznian dictionary. Along with this root lexicon base, the affix rules of the spell-checker can span over 5 million Armenian legal words covering both Western and Eastern Armenian dialects.

This leaves a very small margin of missing illegal words, while not compromizing any of the legal ones.

Orthographies

Version 3.0 of the HySpell Armenian Spellchecker gives the end-user the option to select between Classical or Reformed Orthographies. Moreover, it also has the capabilities to convert between Classical and Reformed Orthographies.

Suggestion Power

The mechanism of suggesting correct words to a misspelled word is fairly standard in the HySpell spellchecker. It is quite helpful specially in the case when the misspelled word differs by 2 or 3 letters from a legal word.

Thesaurus

This version of HySpell includes an internal small 18,000 word Armenian-Armenian dictionary. Moreover, word searches generate hyperlinks to the multi-volume Nayiri dictionaries for further more detailed defintions of the selected word.

Multi-Encoding Issues

The HySpell spellchecker is equipped with enough intelligence to find Armenian content among mixed multiple language text. It does not need further manual language indicators when spell-checking an Microsoft Word document. Moreover, it identifies Armenian text in the two major encodings, namely UNICODE and the old ARMSCII-8 encodings.

Integration and Extensibility

HySpell spellchecker is tightly integrated within Microsoft Office Word 2007/2010/2013/2016 application. This makes it very practical and easy to write professional Word documents in Armenian. Among its important features, it has the capability to add new word to the custom dictionary along with inflections, in this way extending the lexicon-base of legal words. Moreover, the spellchecker has an open architecture exposing even the internal lexicon-base and the affix-rules file for further linguistical custom tuning.