CSpell Norwegian Bokmål Dictionary
Norwegian Bokmål dictionary.
This is a pre-built dictionary for use with CSpell. It spell checks text written in Bokmål, one of the two written standards of Norwegian. For Norwegian Nynorsk, use @cspell/dict-nn-no.
The words come from two sources:
- The Hunspell dictionary of the spell-norwegian project, version 2.2 from 2016. It has compounds and genitives.
- LibreOffice's Norwegian dictionaries, version 3.0 from 2026. LibreOffice's list adds newer words, from Ordbanken and the 2018–2024 revision of Bokmålsordboka.
Compound words that neither source lists are flagged.
Requirements
| Tool | Version |
|---|---|
| cspell | >=8 |
| Code Spell Checker - Visual Studio Code | >=4 |
Local Installation
npm install -D @cspell/dict-nb-no
Configuration
VSCode Settings
Add the following to your VSCode settings:
.vscode/settings.json
{
"cSpell.import": ["@cspell/dict-nb-no/cspell-ext.json"],
"cSpell.language": "nb, nb-no",
}
CSpell Settings cspell.json
cspell.json
{
"import": ["@cspell/dict-nb-no/cspell-ext.json"],
"language": "nb, nb-no",
}
CSpell Settings cspell.config.yaml
cspell.config.yaml
import:
- '@cspell/dict-nb-no/cspell-ext.json'
language: nb, nb-no
Local Installation using CDN
CDN Configuration
VSCode Settings
Add the following to your VSCode settings:
.vscode/settings.json
{
"cSpell.import": ["https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@cspell/dict-nb-no@3/cspell-ext.json"],
"cSpell.language": "nb, nb-no",
}
CSpell Settings cspell.json
cspell.json
{
"import": ["https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@cspell/dict-nb-no@3/cspell-ext.json"],
"language": "nb, nb-no",
}
CSpell Settings cspell.config.yaml
cspell.config.yaml
import:
- https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@cspell/dict-nb-no@3/cspell-ext.json
language: nb, nb-no
Dictionary Information
| Name | Enabled | Description |
|---|---|---|
nb-no | Norwegian Bokmål dictionary. | |
nb-no-alt | Norwegian Bokmål dictionary that also accepts words written without æ, ø, and å. |
Language Settings
| Name | Locale | File Type |
|---|---|---|
nb-no | nb, nb-no | * |
Contributing
Please help correct any mistakes in the dictionaries.
See: Contributing
Special thanks to all of our amazing contributors!
Dictionary Development
See: How to Create a New Dictionary
Sources
| Source | From | License | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|
| hunspell | https://github.com/wooorm/dictionaries/tree/main/dictionaries/nb | license | by hand |
| LibreOffice | https://github.com/LibreOffice/dictionaries/tree/master/no | README | by hand |
Attribution
The word list from LibreOffice, merged by Lars Bungum, includes:
- Ordbanken, from Nasjonalbiblioteket / Språkbanken, under CC BY 4.0.
- Nyordsliste etter revisjonen av Bokmålsordboka (2018–2024), by Standardordbøkene, Revisjonsprosjektet (2018–2024), published by the University of Bergen (Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies) and Språkrådet, http://hdl.handle.net/11509/152, under CLARIN PUB +BY. The revision was funded by Kultur- og likestillingsdepartementet.
- Årets ord from Språkrådet.
CLARIN PUB +BY is one of the licenses used in CLARIN, the European research infrastructure for language resources. It lets anyone use, copy, and distribute the resource, also modified or as part of a larger work, as long as the authors are credited.
The affix files and the older word list come from the spell-norwegian project, under the GNU GPL, version 2 or later.
License
GPL-3.0-or-later
The sources keep their own licenses, listed in Sources.
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