Somehow, Aspell 0.60.6.1 and aspell-dict-en-2016.11.20-0 don't consider this a valid spelling. Skip it. TODO: Migrate to using hunspell. According to upstream, this bug won't be fixed. See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=772406. --- a/testsuite/test-checker.c 2017-03-24 09:50:50.000000000 -0400 +++ b/testsuite/test-checker.c 2017-06-15 21:47:07.116173895 -0400 @@ -105,10 +105,11 @@ * be considered deprecated, it is better to use hunspell, so WONTFIX. * For more details, see: * https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=772406 + * + * correctly_spelled = gspell_checker_check_word (checker, "spell-checking", -1, &error); + * g_assert_no_error (error); + * g_assert (correctly_spelled); */ - correctly_spelled = gspell_checker_check_word (checker, "spell-checking", -1, &error); - g_assert_no_error (error); - g_assert (correctly_spelled); correctly_spelled = gspell_checker_check_word (checker, "nrst-auie", -1, &error); g_assert_no_error (error);