Where is the GNOME Text Editor's spelling dictionary stored?

FedKad

3/19/24, 12:37 PM

I mistakenly clicked at the Add to Dictionary menu option for a wrongly typed word in GNOME Text Editor 43.1 and now every such a word is considered "correct" by gnome-text-editor. How can I remove that word from the user-defined spelling dictionary of GNOME Text Editor?

After doing some research, I found out that gnome-text-editor uses enchant for spell checking. I searched in my home directory and found that the configuration directory named ~/.config/enchant/ contains some files like en_US.dic that did contain my added words. I removed the line containing my wrong word and later I even deleted all the files in this directory. But, still gnome-text-editor treats my wrong word as correctly spelled. I also tried to log out and log back in and restart my computer in case some memory resident process is still running. But, still the same.

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FedKad

3/19/24, 1:26 PM

Finally, I found out that aspell (a tool used by enchant) is also storing the same word(s) inside the file ~/.aspell.en.pws. I deleted that file together with another one called ~/.aspell.en.prepl and the problem has gone now.

Some additional info about these files:

~/.aspell.en.pws is the personal word list for the Aspell spell checker in English. It contains a list of words (one per line) that are specific to a user and are not found in the default English dictionary.

~/.aspell.en.prepl is the personal replacement list for the Aspell spell checker in English. It contains a list of common misspellings and their corrections.

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