Enchant is a free software project developed as part of the AbiWord word processor with the aim of unifying access to the various existing spell-checker software. Enchant wraps a common set of functionality present in a variety of existing products/libraries, and exposes a stable API/ABI for doing so. Where a library doesn't implement some specific functionality, Enchant will emulate it. Enchant is capable of having multiple backends loaded at once. As of May 2009 it has support for 8 backends: LaTeXila and gedit rely on the gspell library, which acts as a wrapper around enchant.