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Fix Brave Browser Dictionary

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.

Where is the file?

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.

joshjohanning commented Mar 31, 2023

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 :)

xCrimin4L commented Oct 31, 2023 •

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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

costomodgen commented Apr 26, 2024

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?

AzureCloudMonk commented Oct 13, 2024

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.