Since I last installed Gentoo, I noticed spellchecking in many applications wasn’t working – notable Pidgin and Xchat. It’s a necessity! You need to come off as someone who knows how to spell while chatting! 
It seems the problem was with myspell – the English dictionary for some reason was not installed. So, it was a simple fix:
1 | $ emerge myspell-en |
Restart the programs and it should work. It may also help to ensure you have your LINGUAS variable set in make.conf. For example:
1 | LINGUAS="en_US en" |
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