--- a/src/af/xap/xp/enchant_checker.cpp	2013-04-07 13:53:03.000000000 +0000
+++ b/src/af/xap/xp/enchant_checker.cpp	2017-11-19 22:54:41.236180298 +0000
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@
 				pvSugg->addItem (ucszSugg);
 		}
 
-		enchant_dict_free_suggestions (m_dict, suggestions);
+		enchant_dict_free_string_list (m_dict, suggestions);
 	}
 
 	return pvSugg;
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@
 
 	if (word && len) {
 		UT_UTF8String utf8 (word, len);
-		enchant_dict_add_to_personal (m_dict, utf8.utf8_str(), utf8.byteLength());
+		enchant_dict_add (m_dict, utf8.utf8_str(), utf8.byteLength());
 		return true;
 	}
 	return false;
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@
 	UT_return_val_if_fail (m_dict, false);
 
 	UT_UTF8String ignore (toCorrect, toCorrectLen);
-	return enchant_dict_is_in_session (m_dict, ignore.utf8_str(), ignore.byteLength()) != 0;
+	return enchant_dict_is_added (m_dict, ignore.utf8_str(), ignore.byteLength()) != 0;
 }
 
 void EnchantChecker::ignoreWord (const UT_UCSChar *toCorrect, size_t toCorrectLen)
--- a/configure.ac	2019-04-26 17:25:04.937047786 +0200
+++ b/configure.ac	2019-04-26 17:25:59.728377688 +0200
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@
 "
 
 # optional deps
-enchant_req='enchant >= 1.2.0'
+enchant_req='enchant >= 2.1.1'
 gio_req='gio-2.0'
 goffice_req='libgoffice-0.10 >= 0.10.0'
 
--- a/configure	2019-04-26 17:28:45.218993916 +0200
+++ b/configure	2019-04-26 17:29:16.531182554 +0200
@@ -4197,7 +4197,7 @@
 "
 
 # optional deps
-enchant_req='enchant >= 1.2.0'
+enchant_req='enchant >= 2.1.1'
 gio_req='gio-2.0'
 goffice_req='libgoffice-0.10 >= 0.10.0'
 
@@ -19582,7 +19582,7 @@
 
    # TODO get rid of this after all platforms are using enchant exclusively
 
-$as_echo "#define WITH_ENCHANT 1" >>confdefs.h
+$as_echo "#define WITH_ENCHANT 2" >>confdefs.h
 
 fi
  if test "$abi_cv_spell" = "yes"; then