diff --git a/docs/release-notes/rl-0.7.md b/docs/release-notes/rl-0.7.md
index 0d560f8..72c35ca 100644
--- a/docs/release-notes/rl-0.7.md
+++ b/docs/release-notes/rl-0.7.md
@@ -181,6 +181,7 @@ To migrate to `nixfmt`, simply change `vim.languages.nix.format.type` to
   default.
 
 - Refactor of `nvim-cmp` and completion related modules
+
   - Remove `autocomplete.type` in favor of per-plugin enable options such as
     [](#opt-vim.autocomplete.nvim-cmp.enable).
   - Deprecate legacy Vimsnip in favor of Luasnip, and integrate
@@ -269,9 +270,13 @@ To migrate to `nixfmt`, simply change `vim.languages.nix.format.type` to
   configuration for [dashboard.nvim](https://github.com/nvimdev/dashboard-nvim)
 
 - Update `lualine.nvim` input and add missing themes:
+
   - Adds `ayu`, `gruvbox_dark`, `iceberg`, `moonfly`, `onedark`,
     `powerline_dark` and `solarized_light` themes.
 
+- Add [](#opt-vim.spellcheck.extraSpellWords) to allow adding arbitrary
+  spellfiles to Neovim's runtime with ease.
+
 [ppenguin](https://github.com/ppenguin):
 
 - Telescope:
diff --git a/modules/neovim/init/spellcheck.nix b/modules/neovim/init/spellcheck.nix
index d8957ef..5d6f5be 100644
--- a/modules/neovim/init/spellcheck.nix
+++ b/modules/neovim/init/spellcheck.nix
@@ -1,11 +1,14 @@
 {
   config,
+  pkgs,
   lib,
   ...
 }: let
   inherit (lib.modules) mkIf mkRenamedOptionModule;
   inherit (lib.options) mkOption mkEnableOption literalExpression;
-  inherit (lib.types) listOf str;
+  inherit (lib.strings) concatLines;
+  inherit (lib.attrsets) mapAttrsToList;
+  inherit (lib.types) listOf str attrsOf;
   inherit (lib.nvim.lua) listToLuaTable;
   inherit (lib.nvim.dag) entryAfter;
 
@@ -24,10 +27,48 @@ in {
       description = ''
         A list of languages that should be used for spellchecking.
 
-        To add your own language files, you may place your `spell`
-        directory in either `~/.config/nvim` or the
-        [additionalRuntimePaths](#opt-vim.additionalRuntimePaths)
-        directory provided by **nvf**.
+        To add your own language files, you may place your `spell` directory in either
+        {file}`$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/nvf` or in a path that is included in the
+        [additionalRuntimePaths](#opt-vim.additionalRuntimePaths) list provided by nvf.
+      '';
+    };
+
+    extraSpellWords = mkOption {
+      type = attrsOf (listOf str);
+      default = {};
+      example = literalExpression ''{"en.utf-8" = ["nvf" "word_you_want_to_add"];}'';
+      description = ''
+        Additional words to be used for spellchecking. The names of each key will be
+        used as the language code for the spell file. For example
+
+        ```nix
+        "en.utf-8" = [ ... ];
+        ```
+
+        will result in `en.utf-8.add.spl` being added to Neovim's runtime in the
+        {file}`spell` directory.
+
+        ::: {.warning}
+        The attribute keys must be in `"<name>.<encoding>"` format for Neovim to
+        compile your spellfiles without mangling the resulting file names. Please
+        make sure that you enter the correct value, as nvf does not do any kind of
+        internal checking. Please see {command}`:help mkspell` for more details.
+
+        Example:
+
+        ```nix
+        # "en" is the name, and "utf-8" is the encoding. For most use cases, utf-8
+        # will be enough, however, you may change it to any encoding format Neovim
+        # accepts, e.g., utf-16.
+        "en.utf-8" = ["nvf" "word_you_want_to_add"];
+        => $out/spell/en-utf-8.add.spl
+        ```
+        :::
+
+        Note that while adding a new language, you will still need to add the name of
+        the language (e.g. "en") to the {option}`vim.spellcheck.languages` list by name
+        in order to enable spellchecking for the language. By default only `"en"` is in
+        the list.
       '';
     };
 
@@ -38,38 +79,75 @@ in {
       description = ''
         A list of filetypes for which spellchecking will be disabled.
 
-        You may use `echo &filetype` in Neovim to find out the
+        ::: {.tip}
+        You may use {command}`:echo &filetype` in Neovim to find out the
         filetype for a specific buffer.
+        :::
       '';
     };
 
-    /*
-    # FIXME: This needs to be revisited. It tries to install
-    # the spellfile to an user directory, but it cannot do so
-    # as we sanitize runtime paths.
     programmingWordlist.enable = mkEnableOption ''
       vim-dirtytalk, a wordlist for programmers containing
       common programming terms.
 
-      Setting this value as `true` has the same effect
-      as setting {option}`vim.spellCheck.enable`
+      ::: {.note}
+      Enabling this option will unconditionally set
+      {option}`vim.spellcheck.enable` to true as vim-dirtytalk
+      depends on spellchecking having been set up.
+      :::
     '';
-    */
   };
 
   config = mkIf cfg.enable {
-    vim.luaConfigRC.spellcheck = entryAfter ["basic"] ''
-      vim.opt.spell = true
-      vim.opt.spelllang = ${listToLuaTable cfg.languages}
+    vim = {
+      additionalRuntimePaths = let
+        compileJoinedSpellfiles =
+          pkgs.runCommandLocal "nvf-compile-spellfiles" {
+            # Use the same version of Neovim as the user's configuration
+            nativeBuildInputs = [config.vim.package];
 
-      -- Disable spellchecking for certain filetypes
-      -- as configured by `vim.spellcheck.ignoredFiletypes`
-      vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd({ "FileType" }, {
-        pattern = ${listToLuaTable cfg.ignoredFiletypes},
-        callback = function()
-          vim.opt_local.spell = false
-        end,
-      })
-    '';
+            spellfilesJoined = pkgs.symlinkJoin {
+              name = "nvf-spellfiles-joined";
+              paths = mapAttrsToList (name: value: pkgs.writeTextDir "spell/${name}.add" (concatLines value)) cfg.extraSpellWords;
+              postBuild = "echo Spellfiles joined";
+            };
+          } ''
+            # Fail on unset variables and non-zero exit codes
+            # this might be the only way to trace when `nvim --headless`
+            # fails in batch mode
+            set -eu
+
+            mkdir -p "$out/spell"
+            for spellfile in "$spellfilesJoined"/spell/*.add; do
+              name="$(basename "$spellfile" ".add")"
+              echo "Compiling spellfile: $spellfile"
+              nvim --headless --clean \
+                --cmd "mkspell $out/spell/$name.add.spl $spellfile" -Es -n
+            done
+
+          '';
+      in
+        mkIf (cfg.extraSpellWords != {}) [
+          # If .outPath is missing, additionalRuntimePaths receives the *function*
+          # instead of a path, causing errors.
+          compileJoinedSpellfiles.outPath
+        ];
+
+      luaConfigRC.spellcheck = entryAfter ["basic"] ''
+        vim.opt.spell = true
+        vim.opt.spelllang = ${listToLuaTable cfg.languages}
+
+        -- Disable spellchecking for certain filetypes
+        -- as configured by `vim.spellcheck.ignoredFiletypes`
+        vim.api.nvim_create_augroup("nvf_autocmds", {clear = false})
+        vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd({ "FileType" }, {
+          group = "nvf_autocmds",
+          pattern = ${listToLuaTable cfg.ignoredFiletypes},
+          callback = function()
+            vim.opt_local.spell = false
+          end,
+        })
+      '';
+    };
   };
 }
diff --git a/modules/plugins/spellcheck/vim-dirtytalk/config.nix b/modules/plugins/spellcheck/vim-dirtytalk/config.nix
index 08426d1..51ccfb8 100644
--- a/modules/plugins/spellcheck/vim-dirtytalk/config.nix
+++ b/modules/plugins/spellcheck/vim-dirtytalk/config.nix
@@ -7,16 +7,26 @@
   inherit (lib.nvim.dag) entryAfter;
   cfg = config.vim.spellcheck;
 in {
-  config = mkIf (cfg.enable && cfg.programmingWordlist.enable) {
+  config = mkIf cfg.programmingWordlist.enable {
     vim = {
       startPlugins = ["vim-dirtytalk"];
 
-      # vim-dirtytalk doesn't have any setup
-      # but we would like to append programming to spelllang
-      # as soon as possible while the plugin is enabled
-      pluginRC.vim-dirtytalk = entryAfter ["basic"] ''
-        -- append programming to spelllang
-        vim.opt.spelllang:append("programming")
+      spellcheck.enable = true;
+
+      # vim-dirtytalk doesn't have any setup but we would
+      # like to append programming to spelllangs as soon as
+      # possible while the plugin is enabled and the state
+      # directory can be found.
+      pluginRC.vim-dirtytalk = entryAfter ["spellcheck"] ''
+        -- If Neovim can find (or access) the state directory
+        -- then append "programming" wordlist from vim-dirtytalk
+        -- to spelllang table. If path cannot be found, display
+        -- an error and avoid appending the programming words
+        if vim.fn.isdirectory(vim.fn.stdpath('state')) == 1 then
+          vim.opt.spelllang:append("programming")
+        else
+          vim.notify("State path does not exist: " .. state_path, vim.log.levels.ERROR)
+        end
       '';
     };
   };