[LUCENE-5707] Spell checker puts a hard 3-letter limit on indexed words which affects suggestions

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 4.8.1
• Component/s: modules/spellchecker

Environment

Windows 7 / IntelliJ IDEA

• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Scott Van Wart
• Created: 26/May/14 16:58
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 14:08

Description

SVN r1055285 (committed for LUCENE-2391) introduced a hard limit on the minimum length required before including a word in the spell checker. This not only shows all 2-letter words as misspelled/not existing (unless the caller agrees that 2-letter words should not be checked for spelling) but 2-letter suggestions will never show up in a call to suggestSimilar(). It would be nice to have this limit reduced or, ideally, not hard-coded.