Sonnet
Original author	KDE
Developer	KDE
Stable release	6.23.0[1]  / 13 February 2026; 4 days ago (13 February 2026)
Type	Spell checker
Website	api.kde.org/frameworks-api/frameworks5-apidocs/sonnet/html/
Repository	anongit.kde.org/sonnet.git

Sonnet is a multilingualspell checker program inKDE Frameworks 5 andKDE Software Compilation 4. Sonnet replaced kspell2 that was created forKDE3. 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.

• Enchant (software)

• Article on Sonnet
• Developers blogArchived 2011-03-12 at theWayback Machine

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