diff --git a/mingw-w64-gnome-text-editor/PKGBUILD b/mingw-w64-gnome-text-editor/PKGBUILD
index 19004d42d34e1..e485f621ab07d 100644
--- a/mingw-w64-gnome-text-editor/PKGBUILD
+++ b/mingw-w64-gnome-text-editor/PKGBUILD
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 _realname=gnome-text-editor
 pkgbase=mingw-w64-${_realname}
 pkgname="${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-${_realname}"
-pkgver=45.3
-pkgrel=2
+pkgver=47.0
+pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="A simple text editor for the GNOME desktop (mingw-w64)"
 arch=('any')
 mingw_arch=('mingw64' 'ucrt64' 'clang64' 'clangarm64')
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ depends=("${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-editorconfig-core-c"
          "${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-enchant"
          "${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-glib2"
          "${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-gtksourceview5"
+         "${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-libspelling"
          "${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-icu"
          "${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-libadwaita")
 makedepends=("${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-cc"
@@ -26,8 +27,17 @@ makedepends=("${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-cc"
              "${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-gtk-doc"
              "${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-gettext"
              "${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-itstool")
-source=(https://download.gnome.org/sources/${_realname}/${pkgver%.*}/${_realname}-${pkgver}.tar.xz)
-sha256sums=('f3ffcb11a92dfd04ba3c3b3d0e667847d4449a21e012ae36f07dda05ac7d3a52')
+source=(https://download.gnome.org/sources/${_realname}/${pkgver%.*}/${_realname}-${pkgver}.tar.xz
+        "https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-text-editor/-/merge_requests/172.patch")
+sha256sums=('0304961974bdacc7e6e8d146dadc949527df99b2823582c8d1ba8b33d25d4217'
+            '36060b47ad21c08403f19302014690b4e3d43f2e30211913ada396dfbdb9113c')
+
+prepare() {
+  cd "${_realname}-${pkgver}"
+
+  # https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-text-editor/-/merge_requests/172
+  patch -Np1 -i "${srcdir}/172.patch"
+}
 
 build() {
   mkdir -p build-${MSYSTEM} && cd build-${MSYSTEM}