diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/mythes/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/mythes/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ff06f2a00506
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/mythes/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, hunspell, pkgconfig, perl }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "mythes-1.2.3";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/hunspell/${name}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "0f5q7yiwg9bw4a5zxg0dapqdfc2grfb4ss34ifir3mhhy4q3jf4j";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ hunspell ];
+  buildNativeInputs = [ pkgconfig perl ];
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/;
+    description = "Thesaurus library from Hunspell project";
+    inherit (hunspell.meta) platforms;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 75c286b965bd..7a0b578eb58e 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -4485,6 +4485,8 @@ let
 
   mysocketw = callPackage ../development/libraries/mysocketw { };
 
+  mythes = callPackage ../development/libraries/mythes { };
+
   ncurses = makeOverridable (import ../development/libraries/ncurses) {
     inherit fetchurl;
     unicode = system != "i686-cygwin";