Thanks James, I found a solution for my problem, using spellcheck.q=spellcheck_en:halogan%20balbs seems to work.
But I would expect it to work without needing to set the spellcheck field on the query (it is already configured on solrconfig.xml) <searchComponent name="spellcheck" class="solr.SpellCheckComponent"> <str name="queryAnalyzerFieldType">text_spell</str> <lst name="spellchecker"> <str name="name">default</str> <str name="classname">solr.DirectSolrSpellChecker</str> <str name="field">spellcheck_en</str> </lst> <lst name="spellchecker"> <str name="name">en</str> <str name="classname">solr.DirectSolrSpellChecker</str> <str name="field">spellcheck_en</str> </lst> </searchComponent> -- Sent from: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Solr-User-f472068.html