diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/nuspell/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/nuspell/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..1d92a15ce00
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/nuspell/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, autoreconfHook, pkgconfig, boost, icu, catch2 }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "nuspell-${version}";
+  version = "2.1.0";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "nuspell";
+    repo = "nuspell";
+    rev = "v${version}";
+    sha256 = "0gcw3p1agnx474r7kv27y9jyab20p4j4xx7j9a2yssg54qabm71j";
+  };
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ autoreconfHook pkgconfig ];
+  buildInputs = [ boost icu ];
+
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
+  preBuild = ''
+    ln -s ${catch2}/include/catch2/*.hpp tests/
+  '';
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "Free and open source C++ spell checking library";
+    homepage = "https://nuspell.github.io/";
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ fpletz ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/nuspell/wrapper.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/nuspell/wrapper.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..4386542ff20
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/nuspell/wrapper.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+{ stdenv, lib, nuspell, makeWrapper, dicts ? [] }:
+with lib;
+let
+  searchPath = makeSearchPath "share/hunspell" dicts;
+in
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = (appendToName "with-dicts" nuspell).name;
+  buildInputs = [ makeWrapper ];
+  buildCommand = ''
+    makeWrapper ${nuspell}/bin/nuspell $out/bin/nuspell --prefix DICPATH : ${searchPath}
+  '';
+  meta = removeAttrs nuspell.meta ["outputsToInstall"];
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 01dccadd3b9..3c5cea676c3 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -11773,6 +11773,9 @@ in
 
   ntrack = callPackage ../development/libraries/ntrack { };
 
+  nuspell = callPackage ../development/libraries/nuspell { };
+  nuspellWithDicts = dicts: callPackage ../development/libraries/nuspell/wrapper.nix { inherit dicts; };
+
   nv-codec-headers = callPackage ../development/libraries/nv-codec-headers { };
 
   nvidia-texture-tools = callPackage ../development/libraries/nvidia-texture-tools { };
@@ -23304,4 +23307,5 @@ in
   newlibCross = callPackage ../development/misc/newlib {
     stdenv = crossLibcStdenv;
   };
+
 }