DICTIONARY OPTIONS
The following options may be used to control which dictionaries to use and how they behave.
--master=<name>, -d <name>
Base name of the dictionary to use. If this option is specified then Aspell will either use this dictionary or die.
--dict-dir=<directory>
Location of the main dictionary word list.
--lang=<string>, -l <string>
Language to use. It follows the same format of the LANG environmental variable on most systems. It consists of the two letter ISO 639 lan‐
guage code and an optional two letter ISO 3166 country code after a dash or underscore. The default value is based on the value of the
LC_MESSAGES locale.
--size=<string>
The preferred size of the dictionary word list. This consists of a two char digit code describing the size of the list, with typical val‐
ues of: 10=tiny, 20=really small, 30=small, 40=med-small, 50=med, 60=med-large, 70=large, 80=huge, 90=insane.
--variety=<string>
Any extra information to distinguish this variety of dictionary from other dictionaries which may have the same lang and size.
--jargon=<string>
Please use the variety option since it replaces jargon as a better choice. jargon will be removed in the future.
--word-list-path=<list of directories>
Search path for word list information files.
--personal=<file>, -p <file>
Personal word list file name.
--repl=<file>
Replacements list file name.
--extra-dicts=<list>
Extra dictionaries to use.