diff --git a/m4/giella-config-files.m4 b/m4/giella-config-files.m4
index 568f0ec2..ebd25750 100644
--- a/m4/giella-config-files.m4
+++ b/m4/giella-config-files.m4
@@ -69,6 +69,8 @@ AC_CONFIG_FILES([src/fst/phonetics/tests/run_tests.sh],
       [chmod a+x src/fst/phonetics/tests/run_tests.sh])
 AC_CONFIG_FILES([tools/spellcheckers/test/test-zhfst-file.sh], \
       [chmod a+x tools/spellcheckers/test/test-zhfst-file.sh])
+AC_CONFIG_FILES([tools/spellcheckers/test/suggestion-quality.sh], \
+      [chmod a+x tools/spellcheckers/test/suggestion-quality.sh])
 AC_CONFIG_FILES([tools/spellcheckers/test/fstbased/desktop/hfst/test-zhfst-basic-sugg-speed.sh], \
       [chmod a+x tools/spellcheckers/test/fstbased/desktop/hfst/test-zhfst-basic-sugg-speed.sh])
 AC_CONFIG_FILES([test/run-yaml-testcases.sh], \
diff --git a/tools/spellcheckers/test/Makefile.am b/tools/spellcheckers/test/Makefile.am
index 84feba0c..3887e088 100644
--- a/tools/spellcheckers/test/Makefile.am
+++ b/tools/spellcheckers/test/Makefile.am
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ endif # WANT_SPELLERS
 
 # List tests that are presently (expected) failures here (in addition to above),
 # ie things that should be fixed *later*, but is not critical at the moment:
-XFAIL_TESTS=run-spellers-gt-norm-yaml-testcases.sh
+XFAIL_TESTS=run-spellers-gt-norm-yaml-testcases.sh suggestion-quality.sh
 
 
 include $(top_srcdir)/../giella-core/am-shared/tools-spellcheckers-test-include.am
diff --git a/tools/spellcheckers/test/suggestion-quality.sh.in b/tools/spellcheckers/test/suggestion-quality.sh.in
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6aeefa6e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/spellcheckers/test/suggestion-quality.sh.in
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# colours
+if test -f "$GIELLA_CORE/scripts/termcolors.bash" ; then
+    . "$GIELLA_CORE/scripts/termcolors.bash"
+fi
+# settings:
+TESTER=@DIVVUN_ACCURACY@
+THRESHOLD=75
+TYPOS="@top_srcdir@/test/data/typos.txt"
+ZHFST="@builddir@/../@GTLANG2@.zhfst"
+
+if test x$TESTER = xfalse ; then
+    printf "%sSKIP%s: missing divvunspell accuracy\n" "$light_blue" "$reset"
+    exit 77
+fi
+if test ! -f "$ZHFST" ; then
+    printf "%sSKIP%s: spellchecker %s not found\n" \
+        "$light_blue" "$reset" "$ZHFST"
+    exit 77
+fi
+if test ! -f "$TYPOS" ; then
+    printf "%sSKIP%s: test data %s not found\n" "$light_blue" "$reset" "$TYPOS"
+    exit 77
+fi
+# run accuracy on typos
+$TESTER -T $THRESHOLD "$TYPOS" "$ZHFST"
+rv=$?
+if test $rv == 77 ; then
+    printf "%sSKIP%s\n" "$light_blue" "$reset"
+    exit 77
+elif test $rv -gt 0 ; then
+    printf "%sFAIL%s\n" "$red" "$reset"
+    exit 1
+else
+    printf "%sPASS%s\n" "$green" "$reset"
+    exit 0
+fi