Install wamerican-large by entering the following commands in the terminal:
sudo apt update sudo apt install wamerican-large
Description:
American English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict
This package provides the file /usr/share/dict/american-english-large containing a list of English words with American spellings. This list can be used by spelling checkers, and by programs such as look(1). . This is a larger list than the one installed by wamerican; nothing prevents you installing both (and others) at the same time. . There are also -small and -huge version of this word list, and there are wbritish* and wcanadian* packages as well.
Homepage: http://wordlist.sourceforge.net/
Version: 2017.08.24-1
Section: universe/text