diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/nu/nuspell/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/nu/nuspell/package.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..bff48444c8b8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/nu/nuspell/package.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+{
+  lib,
+  stdenv,
+  callPackage,
+  fetchFromGitHub,
+  cmake,
+  ctestCheckHook,
+  buildPackages,
+  pkg-config,
+  icu,
+  catch2_3,
+  testers,
+  enableManpages ? buildPackages.pandoc.compiler.bootstrapAvailable,
+}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
+  pname = "nuspell";
+  version = "5.1.6";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "nuspell";
+    repo = "nuspell";
+    tag = "v${finalAttrs.version}";
+    hash = "sha256-U/lHSxpKsBnamf4ikE2aIjEPSU5fxjtuSmhZR0jxMAI=";
+  };
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [
+    cmake
+    pkg-config
+  ]
+  ++ lib.optional enableManpages buildPackages.pandoc;
+
+  strictDeps = true;
+  buildInputs = [ catch2_3 ];
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ icu ];
+
+  cmakeFlags = lib.optional (!enableManpages) "-DBUILD_DOCS=OFF";
+
+  nativeCheckInputs = [
+    ctestCheckHook
+  ];
+
+  doCheck = true;
+
+  outputs = [
+    "out"
+    "lib"
+    "dev"
+  ];
+
+  passthru = {
+    withDicts = callPackage ./wrapper.nix { nuspell = finalAttrs.finalPackage; };
+
+    tests = {
+      wrapper = testers.testVersion {
+        package = finalAttrs.finalPackage.withDicts (d: [ d.en_US ]);
+      };
+
+      pkg-config = testers.testMetaPkgConfig finalAttrs.finalPackage;
+
+      cmake = testers.hasCmakeConfigModules {
+        moduleNames = [ "Nuspell" ];
+        package = finalAttrs.finalPackage;
+        version = finalAttrs.version;
+        versionCheck = true;
+      };
+    };
+  };
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "Free and open source C++ spell checking library";
+    mainProgram = "nuspell";
+    pkgConfigModules = [ "nuspell" ];
+    homepage = "https://nuspell.github.io/";
+    platforms = lib.platforms.all;
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ fpletz ];
+    license = lib.licenses.lgpl3Plus;
+    changelog = "https://github.com/nuspell/nuspell/blob/v${finalAttrs.version}/CHANGELOG.md";
+  };
+})
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/nu/nuspell/wrapper.nix b/pkgs/by-name/nu/nuspell/wrapper.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..07d0dd104bf1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/nu/nuspell/wrapper.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+{
+  lib,
+  buildEnv,
+  nuspell,
+  hunspellDicts,
+  makeBinaryWrapper,
+}:
+
+lib.makeOverridable (
+  dicts: f:
+  buildEnv {
+    inherit (lib.appendToName "with-dicts" nuspell) name version;
+
+    paths = f dicts;
+
+    pathsToLink = [ "/share/hunspell" ];
+
+    nativeBuildInputs = [ makeBinaryWrapper ];
+
+    postBuild = ''
+      makeWrapper ${lib.getExe nuspell} $out/bin/nuspell \
+        --prefix DICPATH : $out/share/hunspell
+    '';
+
+    meta = {
+      inherit (nuspell.meta)
+        description
+        longDescription
+        homepage
+        changelog
+        license
+        maintainers
+        mainProgram
+        platforms
+        ;
+    };
+  }
+) hunspellDicts
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/nuspell/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/nuspell/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index c8c676c27d04..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/nuspell/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,60 +0,0 @@
-{
-  lib,
-  stdenv,
-  fetchFromGitHub,
-  cmake,
-  buildPackages,
-  pkg-config,
-  icu,
-  catch2_3,
-  enableManpages ? buildPackages.pandoc.compiler.bootstrapAvailable,
-}:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  pname = "nuspell";
-  version = "5.1.6";
-
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "nuspell";
-    repo = "nuspell";
-    rev = "v${version}";
-    hash = "sha256-U/lHSxpKsBnamf4ikE2aIjEPSU5fxjtuSmhZR0jxMAI=";
-  };
-
-  nativeBuildInputs = [
-    cmake
-    pkg-config
-  ]
-  ++ lib.optionals enableManpages [
-    buildPackages.pandoc
-  ];
-
-  buildInputs = [ catch2_3 ];
-
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [ icu ];
-
-  cmakeFlags = [
-    "-DBUILD_TESTING=YES"
-  ]
-  ++ lib.optionals (!enableManpages) [
-    "-DBUILD_DOCS=OFF"
-  ];
-
-  doCheck = true;
-
-  outputs = [
-    "out"
-    "lib"
-    "dev"
-  ];
-
-  meta = with lib; {
-    description = "Free and open source C++ spell checking library";
-    mainProgram = "nuspell";
-    homepage = "https://nuspell.github.io/";
-    platforms = platforms.all;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ fpletz ];
-    license = licenses.lgpl3Plus;
-    changelog = "https://github.com/nuspell/nuspell/blob/v${version}/CHANGELOG.md";
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/nuspell/wrapper.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/nuspell/wrapper.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 4bb97e623d38..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/nuspell/wrapper.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-{
-  stdenv,
-  lib,
-  nuspell,
-  makeWrapper,
-  dicts ? [ ],
-}:
-
-let
-  searchPath = lib.makeSearchPath "share/hunspell" dicts;
-in
-stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = (lib.appendToName "with-dicts" nuspell).name;
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ makeWrapper ];
-  buildCommand = ''
-    makeWrapper ${nuspell}/bin/nuspell $out/bin/nuspell --prefix DICPATH : ${lib.escapeShellArg searchPath}
-  '';
-  meta = removeAttrs nuspell.meta [ "outputsToInstall" ];
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 2e4dd36437cb..a60b9446a57b 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -8528,9 +8528,11 @@ with pkgs;
   nss = nss_esr;
   nssTools = nss.tools;
 
-  nuspell = callPackage ../development/libraries/nuspell { };
   nuspellWithDicts =
-    dicts: callPackage ../development/libraries/nuspell/wrapper.nix { inherit dicts; };
+    dicts:
+    lib.warn "nuspellWithDicts is deprecated, please use nuspell.withDicts instead." nuspell.withDicts (
+      _: dicts
+    );
 
   nv-codec-headers-9 = nv-codec-headers.override { majorVersion = "9"; };
   nv-codec-headers-10 = nv-codec-headers.override { majorVersion = "10"; };