If you have ever mistakenly added a word to the Brave browser dictionary,
you need to manually edit the Custom Dictionary.txt file.
As of March 2020, the Brave UI lacks a feature to do this.
This will depend on your OS. Google for where this is on your OS.
The file on macOS is at: ~/Library/Application\ Support/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/Default/Custom\ Dictionary.txt.
Use your favorite text editor to edit and save the file.
Has anyone figured out how to do this on a Mac yet? The inability to change my dictionary is an inconvenience. What were the designers of Brave thinking or not thinking when this was left out?
The instructions above are for MacOS.
A location and instructions are not the same thing. What are the instructions to find the location of the file?
Open it with a text editor, find the offending line, then save. The dictionary file is here: ~/Library/Application\ Support/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/Default/Custom\ Dictionary.txt
It's grayed out in TextEdit and can't be opened.
terminal. Then press Return.open -a TextEdit ~/Library/Application\ Support/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/Default/Custom\ Dictionary.txtGitHub is largely utilized by software developers and the audience of our instructions is geared towards those users. Instead of lobbing snide remarks towards me, you could use Google to figure things out.
I did try to find this on google. This is the only thing that comes up. My snide remarks are justified by Brave's incompetence and your obnoxiousness.
I'm going to go against Abraham Lincoln's sage advice of: "Don't get into flame wars with strangers on the Internet", and say that this comment is neither productive nor does it move the GitHub community forward in any way. If something isn't helpful to you, please find another solution elsewhere or post your complaints to Twitter, which is much better suited to such insightful soliloquies.
2. open -a TextEdit ~/Library/Application\ Support/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/Default/Custom\ Dictionary.txt
worked thanks!
Or just visit: brave://settings/editDictionary
Or just visit:
brave://settings/editDictionary
That doesn't work for me on the latest Brave on macOS.
I don't see why it's something OS-exclusive, strange.
I tested it on Windows 10.
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This used to work for me but now the Custom Dictionary.txt file doesn't appear to exist. Frustrating that this feature doesn't exist in the UI.
@LondonAppDev Oh no did they move it??
There's a checksum on the final line, does that need to be changed? I removed the accidentally added dictionary item, but it doesn't seem to do the red squigglies in the UI anymore.
I don't recall seeing a checksum unless that's new? Did you try closing and reopening (I know that sounds dumb)?
EDIT: Oh wow look at that. There is a checksum in there now... We'll need to check what the code in chromium is doing here: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/refs/heads/main/chrome/browser/spellchecker/spellcheck_custom_dictionary.h#39
I tried totally deleting the file and my previously saved dictionary (including the word I want to remove) still appear to now squiggle in Brave.
It also adds it here, and I have removed it from the list, but it still is stuck and won't re-squiggle :)
open -a TextEdit ~/Library/Spelling/LocalDictionary
I can re-create the checksum they have in the source by going here and leaving a trailing new line.
But still, even with the checksum is correct I am not sure how to purge an old word.
Yuck, what a mess!
Alright I think it is actually working now but the word I mistakenly added was assit. If I type that in a sentence, it squiggles.
If I put it on a new line, like
assit
it doesn't squiggle. Well anyway, hopefully this chicken scratch above is helpful to someone in the future. Good luck to everyone in the future :)
On Windows 10 (and probably 11), the location is:
%LocalAppData%\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\Default\Custom Dictionary.txt
or you can manually enter your local AppData location:
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\Default\Custom Dictionary.txt
On MAC OS, update April 2024, they moved the location of the dictionary to:
~Library/Application Support/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/Default
When you right click and select "Add to Dictionary" in Brave, it creates a file "Custom Dictionary.txt" in the Default folder. I have edited that Custom Dictionary.txt, deleted, it done what I can think of to remove incorrectly added words. However, nothing has fully removed those words from the custom dictionary, that is, they are still incorrectly spelled, but not indicted with a red line.
This is the furthest I have gone, can anyone give an update how to reimplement the red lines on words that are accidentally-added to the dictionary?
As usual, with crappy Brave, it is buggy as can be. It works fine on Windows 10-11, macOS, but not on Ubuntu. Can edit the Custom Dictionary.txt file in /home/USERNAME/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/Default and it shows up in the brave://settings/editDictionary GUI, but the red squiggles never go away on words in the Custom Dictionary.txt. There iOS Brave is extremely buggy and crashes often. Typical nowadays with Big Tech entry level cut and paste coders using GPT/CoPilot.
Windows path = C:\Users{UserName}\AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\Default\Custom Dictionary.txt
But also now available in Brave via brave://settings/editDictionary