Language coverage

56 language varieties, checked on your Mac

Refine checks grammar and fluency in 56 varieties, and 30 of those are regional standards rather than separate languages. The distinction matters: a checker that offers one “English” cannot tell you that organise is right in Sydney and wrong in Chicago.

All of it runs against a local model on your Mac. Nothing on this page requires sending a sentence to a server.

Varieties
56
With regional standards
7
Regional standards
30
Single-standard languages
26

Languages with regional standards

Each variant is a separate setting, not a label on the same rules.

English

9 standards

Nine regional standards, so spelling, punctuation and idiom follow the variety you actually write in.

  • English (American)en-US
  • English (British)en-GB
  • English (Canadian)en-CA
  • English (Australian)en-AU
  • English (New Zealand)en-NZ
  • English (South African)en-ZA
  • English (Indian)en-IN
  • English (Irish)en-IE
  • English (Scottish)

German

3 standards

Standard, Swiss and Austrian German differ in orthography — Swiss German drops the ß entirely.

  • German (Standard)de-DE
  • German (Swiss)de-CH
  • German (Austrian)de-AT

French

4 standards

Four standards, including Canadian French, which diverges from Metropolitan French in vocabulary and anglicism handling.

  • French (Standard)fr-FR
  • French (Canadian)fr-CA
  • French (Swiss)fr-CH
  • French (Belgian)fr-BE

Spanish

5 standards

Five regional standards across Spain and Latin America, which differ in verb usage and everyday vocabulary.

  • Spanish (Spain)es-ES
  • Spanish (Mexican)es-MX
  • Spanish (Argentine)es-AR
  • Spanish (Colombian)es-CO
  • Spanish (Chilean)es-CL

Portuguese

2 standards

European and Brazilian Portuguese, which differ in spelling and grammar after the orthographic agreement.

  • Portuguese (European)pt-PT
  • Portuguese (Brazilian)pt-BR

Italian

2 standards

Standard Italian plus the Swiss standard used in Ticino.

  • Italian (Standard)it-IT
  • Italian (Swiss)it-CH

Chinese

5 standards

Script and spoken variety are treated separately, so Cantonese and Taiwanese Mandarin are not folded into a single Chinese setting.

  • Mandarin Chinese
  • Simplified Chinesezh-Hans
  • Traditional Chinesezh-Hant
  • Taiwanese Mandarinzh-TW
  • Cantoneseyue

Single-standard languages

Supported as one standard each.

  • Arabicar
  • Bosnianbs
  • Catalanca
  • Croatianhr
  • Czechcs
  • Danishda
  • Dutchnl
  • Finnishfi
  • Greekel
  • Hebrewhe
  • Hindihi
  • Hungarianhu
  • Indonesianid
  • Japaneseja
  • Koreanko
  • Norwegianno
  • Polishpl
  • Romanianro
  • Russianru
  • Serbiansr
  • Slovaksk
  • Swedishsv
  • Thaith
  • Turkishtr
  • Ukrainianuk
  • Vietnamesevi

What the tags mean, and where they stop

The codes above are BCP 47 language tags, included so this list can be quoted precisely. Two entries have none. “English (Scottish)” has no region subtag in the standard, and “Mandarin Chinese” describes a spoken variety that cuts across the Simplified and Traditional script tags rather than sitting alongside them. Rather than invent tags for those two, we left them out.

Coverage is not uniform: the depth of correction varies by language, and the widest regional support is in English, German, French, Spanish and Portuguese. See the multilingual guide for how language selection and translation actually behave, and the offline guide for what running locally requires.