How to activate spellcheck in KDE plasma (and Kate)?

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Currently everything is empty:

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I installed hunspell and dictionaries

$ hunspell -D
...
AVAILABLE DICTIONARIES (path is not mandatory for -d option):
/run/current-system/sw/share/hunspell/de_DE
/run/current-system/sw/share/hunspell/en_US

$ echo appel | hunspell
Hunspell 1.7.0
& appel 5 0: apple, appeal, rappel, apparel, lapel

Starting e.g. Kate or System Setting throws:

kf.sonnet.core: No language dictionaries for the language: "en_US"

What am I missing?

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this might have some clues for you.

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/26654

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I’m currently experiencing the same issue. I tried adding sonnet and aspell + dictionaries to my config but it didn’t work.
KRunner tells me I have no dictionaries and that I need to install hspell, which also does not help.

Is there something else I should be adding to my system?
Currently on nixos-unstable

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This worked for me:

  environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
    aspell
    aspellDicts.en
    aspellDicts.en-computers
    aspellDicts.en-science
  ];
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Thanks for the response. Unfortunately, I have those same packages and it doesn’t seem to work for me. I thought I also needed to add libsForQt5.sonnet but I’ve now tried it with and without sonnet and it still doesn’t work. I have an otherwise fairly default config so I’m not sure what the issue is if I’m not missing any packages.
My full system packages list looks like this:

environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
    vim
    wget
    git
    vscode-fhs
    # libsforQt5.sonnet
    aspell
    aspellDicts.en
    aspellDicts.en-computers
    aspellDicts.en-science
  ];

To clarify, I can use aspell just fine by itself, it just doesn’t work with KDE. I also tried it on both 22.05 and unstable and it works on neither.

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Don’t know. My actual dual language (de and en) aspell.nix config file which I include successfully on two machines on unstable is:

{ config, pkgs, ... }:

{
  # hunspell is not working: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/26654
  environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
    aspell
    aspellDicts.de
    aspellDicts.en
    aspellDicts.en-computers
    aspellDicts.en-science
  ];
}

and it results in

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Otherwise I don’t see any other spelling or plasma related changes in my config. It worked after I got and incorporated the hint by @nixinator from above.