Editor's spelling, grammar, and refinement availability by language
This article lists the availability of the spelling, grammar, and writing style options (refinements) in Microsoft Editor. Learn how to get more from Editor with Microsoft 365.
Note
For information on grammar and style settings for earlier versions of Office, see Select grammar and writing style options in Office.
Not all languages have the same sets of refinements. For details about the grammar and refinement settings available for a language, follow the link to download a Word document.
Languages marked with an asterisk (*) include context-sensitive spell checking.
Japanese writing refinements and Hebrew grammar and writing refinements (**) are not yet available in the desktop Word app.
| Language | Spell check | Grammar check | Writing refinements |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afrikaans | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| Albanian | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| Arabic Download details |
● | ● | ● |
| Armenian | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| Assamese | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| Azerbaijani - (Latin) | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| Bangla (Bengali India) | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| Bangla (Bangladesh) | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| Basque (Basque) | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| Bosnian - (Latin) | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| Bulgarian | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| Catalan | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| Chinese (Simplified) Download details |
◌ | ● | ◌ |
| Chinese (Traditional) Download details |
◌ | ● | ◌ |
| Croatian | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| Czech Download details |
● | ● | ● |
| Danish Download details |
● | ● | ● |
| Dutch Download details |
● | ● | ● |
| English * Download details |
● | ● | ● |
| Estonian | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| Finnish Download details |
● | ● | ● |
| French * Download details |
● | ● | ● |
| Galician | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| Georgian | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| German * Download details |
● | ● | ● |
| Greek | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| Gujarati | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| Hausa - Latin script | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| Hebrew Download details |
● | ● ** | ●** |
| Hindi | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| Hungarian Download details |
● | ● | ● |
| Icelandic | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| Igbo | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| Indonesian | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| Irish Gaelic | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| isiXhosa | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| isiZulu | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| Italian * Download details |
● | ● | ● |
| Japanese | ◌ | ● | ● ** |
| Kannada | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| Kazakh | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| Kinyarwanda | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| Kiswahili | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| Konkani | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| Korean Download details |
● | ● | ● |
| Kyrgyz | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| Latvian | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| Lithuanian | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| Luxembourgish | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| Macedonian (North Macedonia) | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| Malay (Brunei) | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| Malay (Latin) | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| Malayalam | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| Maltese | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| Maori | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| Marathi | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| Nepali | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| Norwegian (Bokmål) Download details |
● | ● | ● |
| Norwegian (Nynorsk) | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| Odia | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| Pashto | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| Persian (Farsi) | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| Polish Download details |
● | ● | ● |
| Portuguese (Brazil) * Download details |
● | ● | ● |
| Portuguese (Portugal) Download details |
● | ● | ● |
| Punjabi (Gurmukhi) | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| Romanian | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| Romansh | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| Russian Download details |
● | ● | ● |
| Scottish Gaelic | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| Serbian - (Cyrillic, Serbia) | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| Serbian - (Latin, Serbia) | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| Sesotho sa Leboa | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| Setswana | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| Sinhala | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| Slovak | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| Slovenian | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| Spanish Download details |
● | ● | ● |
| Swedish Download details |
● | ● | ● |
| Tamil | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| Tatar (Cyrillic) | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| Telugu | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| Thai | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| Turkish Download details |
● | ● | ● |
| Ukrainian | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| Urdu | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| Uzbek - (Latin) | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| Valencian | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| Vietnamese | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| Welsh | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| Wolof | ● | ◌ | ◌ |
| Yoruba | ● | ◌ | ◌ |