diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index 3dcacc7de76..72852d4cb6a 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -754,6 +754,7 @@ libGLEW.so.2.2 glew-2.2.0_1
 libsndfile.so.1 libsndfile-1.0.20_1
 libspeex.so.1 libspeex-1.1_1
 libspeexdsp.so.1 speexdsp-1.2rc2_1
+libspelling-1.so.2 libspelling-0.4.5_1
 libasyncns.so.0 libasyncns-0.8_1
 libpulse.so.0 libpulseaudio-15.0_1
 libpulse-mainloop-glib.so.0 libpulseaudio-15.0_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libspelling-devel b/srcpkgs/libspelling-devel
new file mode 120000
index 00000000000..4fc06ddcb85
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libspelling-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+libspelling
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libspelling/template b/srcpkgs/libspelling/template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a61ce148e33
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libspelling/template
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+# Template file for 'libspelling'
+pkgname=libspelling
+version=0.4.5
+revision=1
+build_style=meson
+build_helper="gir"
+configure_args="-Dsysprof=false"
+hostmakedepends="pkg-config gi-docgen gettext glib-devel vala"
+makedepends="gtk4-devel libadwaita-devel gtksourceview5-devel enchant2-devel"
+checkdepends="hunspell-en"
+short_desc="Spellcheck library for GTK 4"
+maintainer="oreo639 <oreo6391@gmail.com>"
+license="LGPL-3.0-or-later"
+homepage="https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libspelling"
+changelog="https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libspelling/-/raw/main/NEWS"
+distfiles="${GNOME_SITE}/libspelling/${version%.*}/libspelling-${version}.tar.xz"
+checksum=ec0372d83f42b65aee3734248ef8e2ffbfba4ea91268419c98ea44a00ef3e83f
+
+pre_build() {
+	# help gi-docgen find gi files on cross
+	if [ -n "$CROSS_BUILD" ]; then
+		export XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/$XBPS_CROSS_TRIPLET/usr/share/
+	fi
+}
+
+libspelling-devel_package() {
+	depends="gtk4-devel libadwaita-devel gtksourceview5-devel ${sourcepkg}>=${version}_${revision}"
+	short_desc+=" - development files"
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove usr/share/doc
+		vmove usr/include
+		vmove usr/lib/pkgconfig
+		vmove "usr/lib/*.so"
+		vmove usr/share/gir-1.0
+		vmove usr/share/vala
+	}
+}