Spellcheck My Spellchecker

[SilverSurfer60]

:wacko: I have some misspelled words in my aspell word list but I don't know how to get rid of them. Can anybody help please?

[Greg2]

I don't believe that you can delete files from within aspell, however you can manually edit the file. You should be able to find the file location with

aspell config personal-path

then edit that file.

 

Here's some info on that file format: Format-of-the-Personal-and-Replacement-Dictionaries

[K Bergen]

That would be adding the word to your personal dictionary.

Wouldn't be simpler to right click the word and in the pop up choose add to dictionary?

 

Ken

[SilverSurfer60]

Thank you Greg. I found the offending file(s) and as there seemed to be quite a few bad words I decided to re-install aspell after deleting the personal directory.

 

Ken I understand what you are saying, but, in the first instance if there is a misspelled word in a dictionary then it will never be highlighted. I also use the same dictionaries when spell-checking rather large text files and if there are bad words in the dictionary then they will remain in the document. Thank you for the suggestion any way.