Is there a way to control the order of suggestions for spell corrections?

[Brian Feeny]

In doing a spell correction, pyenchant is likely trying to do various things, such as make splits of the word, add letters, etc.

I find that in many cases the suggestion it gives involves a split, and I am wondering if there is a way to influence it so it doesn't suggest those so easily.

I could check the returned word, and see if it has a ' ' in it, and if so ask for the next, but I was hoping there is a way to control pyenchant itself.  Here is the code I am using:

class SpellingReplacer(object):

    def __init__(self, dict_name='en', max_dist=2):

        self.spell_dict = enchant.Dict(dict_name)

        self.max_dist = 2

    def replace(self, word):

        if self.spell_dict.check(word):

            return word

        suggestions = self.spell_dict.suggest(word)

        if suggestions and edit_distance(word, suggestions[0]) <= self.max_dist:

            return suggestions[0]

        else:

            return word

replacer = SpellingReplacer()

So then I run a ton of words through it and get results like this:

# it should have selected hmm, by first trying to reduce repetitive letters

hmmmm is probably hmm mm

# should be interrupts

interupts is probably int erupts

# regretted
regreted is probably regret ed

# offer
offfer is probably off fer


So you can see it gets some of these wrong, and I am wondering if there is a way to modify the order of what it tries? I realize you can modify the edit distance, but that doesn't change the method order that its attempting to use.