Sonnet (software)

Sonnet is a multilingual spell checker program in KDE Frameworks 5 and KDE Software Compilation 4. Sonnet replaced kspell2 that was created for KDE3. The two main goals for Sonnet's development were a simpler API, wider language support and performance. Notable improvements in Sonnet over kspell2 are:

• In automatic language detection, a language can be identified with as little as 20 characters of text. Even multiple languages in the same document can be detected and spell checked correctly
• Better performance
• Improvements in spell checking languages like Thai and Japanese
• A simpler design - kspell2 consisted of 7 components and a complicated API. Sonnet is a single component and aims to provide a simpler API
• The user can select a primary and backup dictionary, an example given was a doctor who frequently uses terms from a medical dictionary. Words that would not appear in a regular dictionary would be corrected by the backup dictionary that contains medical terms.

Sonnet
Original author(s)	KDE
Developer(s)	KDE
Stable release	6.16.0[1]  / 11 July 2025; 17 days ago (11 July 2025)
Repository	anongit.kde.org/sonnet.git
Type	Spell checker
Website	api.kde.org/frameworks-api/frameworks5-apidocs/sonnet/html/

Main article: KDE Frameworks

See also

• Enchant (software)