In addition, we may use the following special characters that can be used in words in some circumstances: " '

- . = \ ^ ` { } ~ A finite sequence <word> of legal characters and/or special characters can be considered to be a legitimate word only if the length of <word> is in between MinWordLen and 40, where MinWordLen is some number in between 2 and 9 and defined in the configuration file (as the 11th entry). This configuration variable can be overridden by the command line switch -len For instance jspell -len 3 <sample> will ignore all words in the text file <sample> that has length 1 or 2.