ispell-dict-russian-lebedev is the Russian spellchecking dictionary for ispell. This package has been patched to support utf-8 and is shipping two versions of the dictionary/affixfile: "ye-version" and "yo-version". The differ by treating the letter "yo" as unnecessary/mandatory. If somebody needs a ye-yo version, drop me a line, but this build is here mostly for historical reasons, for all intents and puroposes it is better to move to aspell/hunspell/nuspell/myspell/enchant. Check that it works run this command and check output: echo пестрый | ispell -d russian-lebedev-yo @(#) International Ispell Version 3.4.04 02 Jun 2021 word: how about: пестрей, пестры, пёстрый