What is "Dictionary" icon = 'a'

In Application Manager it shows 'Dictionary' 7.41 MB, version 2.5.29 and has a brown/red icon with a white 'a' in it.
This app doesn't show in my apps, and cannot be uninstalled but could be disabled so I assume it is part of the Android operating system, perhaps for spellcheck/predictive text?

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