Created attachment 178462 [details] v0 textproc/aspell was last updated in ports r277062. textproc/hunspell is more likely to be pulled as a dependency for other ports e.g., textproc/enchant. ArchLinux and Debian appear to compile both in. In such a case hunspell is selected by default. Disclaimer: I don't use this port but interested in dogfooding hunspell updates.
A commit references this bug: Author: danilo Date: Sun Jan 22 21:27:00 UTC 2017 New revision: 432162 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/432162 Log: - Enable both aspell and hunspell as default PR: 215718 Changes: head/editors/tea/Makefile
Committed. Thanks!