---
id: pyphen
version: "0.18.0"
license: unclear
license_treatment: copyleft
maintenance: active
---

# pyphen — Pure Python module to hyphenate text

License: copyleft · Maintenance: active · Popularity: top 1,000 on PyPI

## Install

pip install pyphen
uv add pyphen
poetry add pyphen

## Description

Pyphen is a pure Python module to hyphenate text using existing Hunspell
hyphenation dictionaries.

This module is a fork of python-hyphenator, written by Wilbert Berendsen.

Many dictionaries are included in Pyphen, they come from the LibreOffice git
repository and are distributed under GPL, LGPL and/or MPL. Dictionaries are not
modified in this repository. See the dictionaries and LibreOffice's repository
for more details.

https://git.libreoffice.org/dictionaries

* Free software: GPL 2.0+ or LGPL 2.1+ or MPL 1.1 for the code
* For Python 3.10+, tested on CPython and PyPy
* Documentation: https://doc.courtbouillon.org/pyphen
* Changelog: https://github.com/Kozea/pyphen/releases
* Code, issues, tests: https://github.com/Kozea/pyphen
* Code of conduct: https://www.courtbouillon.org/code-of-conduct
* Professional support: https://www.courtbouillon.org
* Donation: https://opencollective.com/courtbouillon

Pyphen has been created and developed by Kozea (https://kozea.fr).
Professional support, maintenance and community management is provided by
CourtBouillon (https://www.courtbouillon.org).

Copyrights are retained by their contributors, no copyright assignment is
required to...

## AI interpretation — verify before relying

Pyphen hyphenates text using Hunspell dictionaries bundled from LibreOffice, enabling proper word breaking for text layout and display in Python applications.

Verdict: Pyphen is a well-maintained, dependency-free text hyphenation library with no known vulnerabilities. Its copyleft licensing (GPL/LGPL/MPL) requires careful review if your codebase has restrictive license constraints, but the active maintenance and broad Python version support make it reliable for text processing tasks.

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