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.
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?
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 :)