diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index c39fd07253d..bfe12d63fcd 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -166,7 +166,11 @@ Optimizations
     TestBoolean2 test to keep passing.
     (Paul Elschot via Otis Gospodnetic)
 
-Documentation:
+ 4. LUCENE-882: Spellchecker doesn't store the ngrams anymore but only indexes
+    them to keep the spell index small. (Daniel Naber)
+ 
+Documentation
+
  1. LUCENE 791 && INFRA-1173: Infrastructure moved the Wiki to http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/   Updated the links in the docs and wherever else I found references.  (Grant Ingersoll, Joe Schaefer)
 
  2. Fixed the javadoc for ScoreDocComparator.compare() to be consistent with 
diff --git a/contrib/spellchecker/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/spell/SpellChecker.java b/contrib/spellchecker/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/spell/SpellChecker.java
index 67cdf761a14..d5633b9c144 100755
--- a/contrib/spellchecker/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/spell/SpellChecker.java
+++ b/contrib/spellchecker/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/spell/SpellChecker.java
@@ -349,14 +349,14 @@ public class SpellChecker {
       String end = null;
       for (int i = 0; i < len - ng + 1; i++) {
         String gram = text.substring(i, i + ng);
-        doc.add(new Field(key, gram, Field.Store.YES, Field.Index.UN_TOKENIZED));
+        doc.add(new Field(key, gram, Field.Store.NO, Field.Index.UN_TOKENIZED));
         if (i == 0) {
-          doc.add(new Field("start" + ng, gram, Field.Store.YES, Field.Index.UN_TOKENIZED));
+          doc.add(new Field("start" + ng, gram, Field.Store.NO, Field.Index.UN_TOKENIZED));
         }
         end = gram;
       }
       if (end != null) { // may not be present if len==ng1
-        doc.add(new Field("end" + ng, end, Field.Store.YES, Field.Index.UN_TOKENIZED));
+        doc.add(new Field("end" + ng, end, Field.Store.NO, Field.Index.UN_TOKENIZED));
       }
     }
   }