Install wamerican by entering the following commands in the terminal:
sudo apt update sudo apt install wamerican
Description:
American English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict
This package provides the file /usr/share/dict/american-english containing a list of English words with American spellings. This list can be used by spelling checkers, and by programs such as look(1). . There are also -small, -large, and -huge versions of this word list, and there are wbritish* and wcanadian* packages as well.
Homepage: http://wordlist.sourceforge.net/
Version: 2017.08.24-1
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