Microsoft Word Dictionary File Download

[Karren Bangura]

Wordfor the web checks spelling, and you can add words to your dictionary. However, its built-in word list doesn't show definitions, and you can't lookup words, the way you can with Word for the desktop.

If you want to install a dictionary or see definitions and you have Word for the desktop, click Open in Word and follow the steps in Check spelling and grammar. To add words to a dictionary, see Add words to your spell check dictionary.

If the spell checker flags certain words as misspelled and you want it to ignore these words, add them to the default custom dictionary. To change the default custom dictionary where these words are added, see Change the custom dictionary to which the spelling checker adds words, below.

When you add new words while checking spelling, they are added to the default custom dictionary at the top of the list in the Custom Dictionaries dialog box. You can change the default custom dictionary used for all Office programs:

By default, when you create a new custom dictionary, the app sets the dictionary to All Languages, which means that the dictionary is used when you check the spelling of text in any language. However, you can associate a custom dictionary with a particular language so that the program uses the dictionary only when you check the spelling of text in a particular language.

The Custom Dictionaries dialog box lists the available custom dictionaries the program can use to check spelling. If the dictionary you want to use, such as one purchased from a third-party company, is installed on your computer but not listed in the Dictionary list box, you can add it.

If you want this custom dictionary to be the default dictionary, where any new words you add are saved, see the section Change the custom dictionary to which the spelling checker adds words above.

By default, when you create a new custom dictionary, the program sets the dictionary to All Languages, which means that the dictionary is used to check the spelling of text in any language. However, you can associate a custom dictionary with a particular language so that the program uses the dictionary only when you check the spelling of text in a particular language.

Whenever you check the spelling of a document, you have an option to add a word flagged as misspelled to a custom dictionary. The default custom dictionary is the dictionary to which Microsoft Word adds the word when you do this.

Using Ventura 13.4.1 and latest version of Microsoft 365. 21" iMac. This began a month or more back. When using foreign words while typing into Word, I get the red underline flagging an error. Fair enough, but when I try to add it to the dictionary, I get the message "The custom dictionary is full. The word was not added." I have not added more than a few dozen words, I guess. In Microsoft communities, this question has been around for a long time (Macs only, I think.) but I saw no clear resolution (or none I was willing to risk).

I had the same issue, with a brand-new, fully-updated copy of MS Word. It started after I added a second word to the custom dictionary which contained a single apostrophe. By opening the custom dictionary (WordPreferencesSpelling&GrammarDictionariesCustom DictionaryEdit) and deleting just the two words containing apostrophes, then restarting Word, it all seems to work, now. I suspect there's a bug in the Custom Dictionary parsing code which chokes on apostrophes.

Office used to have a "Repair" utility. At least it did in the Windows version. Apparently that's not available in Mac versions (2016 and 2019 at any rate), hence the need to reinstall completely. From personal experience with decades of MS Office use, complete removal of the app is recommended before reinstallation. Office is notable for not overwriting files left behind. And all MS Office apps leave supposedly "innocuous" files behind.

For your concern, yes, it is expected behavior when you delete the folder, then reopen Word. According to your description, please reconfirm your Custom Dictionary location is under UBF8T346G9.Office. Click Word in the menu> Preferences> Spelling Grammar> Dictionaries. If so, please remove all the existing dictionaries and add a new one. Check whether the issue still exists.

Dictionary objects that represent custom dictionaries are members of the Dictionaries collection. Other dictionary objects are returned by properties of the Language collection; these include the ActiveSpellingDictionary, ActiveGrammarDictionary, ActiveThesaurusDictionary, and ActiveHyphenationDictionary properties. You can use these properties for each language for which proofing tools are installed.

Use CustomDictionaries(index), where index is an index number or the string name for the dictionary, to return a single Dictionary object that represents a custom dictionary.

Use the ActiveCustomDictionary property to set the custom spelling dictionary in the collection to which new words are added. If you try to set this property to a dictionary that's not a custom dictionary, an error occurs.

Use the LanguageSpecific property to determine whether the specified custom dictionary can have a specific language assigned to it with the LanguageID property. If the dictionary is language specific, it will verify only text that's formatted for the specified language.

I was editing a document in Office Word 2007 on Windows XP and suddenly all sorts of words are underlined as misspelled. I go into Word options and it talks about French dictionary! In the preferences, my primary language is set to English (US) and that is only language set.

To fix issue like this in Microsoft Word where the Synonyms for a particular document is in different language or the proofing language/spell check is changed to French, Spanish, etc; First select all the document (shortcut Ctrl + A) and navigate to Review Tab > Language > Set Proofing Language and then in the pop up , make sure the check-box "Detect language automatically" is unchecked.

Word switches the language based on the input language. I have Polish installed as input language, along with the proper keyboard layout and when I switch to that in Word I get spell-checking in the correct language.

This is a weird bug in Word, which still exists in Word 365 (just encountered it in October 2022!). I tried various solutions mentioned above, and none worked. In the end when I went into this option I finally got it to be showing French, and reverted to English - I wonder if I had the dodgy line selected at the time?

Even if you show print characters, there is no symbol inserted in your document to say you suddenly want to switch to French proofing. I wonder if an image added contains a series of characters which triggers this instruction? Weird.

I encountered in PPT 2007 where I was typing text in and suddenly normal words, such as "your" and "windows", were being highlighted as being incorrect. I right-clicked on the misspelled words and the spelling showed what I beleive was French spelling. I looked at the main dictionary and English was selected.

As mentioned above, I also went into the REVIEW>LANGUAGE, scrolled through the list and selected English (US), even though it was already highlighted, and then clicked default. The wording that was marked as incorrect was now correct. I can only guess that I had accidently hit a key combination while typing that forced a different dictionary.

When you check spelling in Word for Mac OS X and choose toadd a word to the personal dictionary, by default the word is added toa plain text file called Custom Dictionary. If you add amisspelled word, you can remove it by editing CustomDictionary in Word:

In those instances, the editor or writer can just check the term against the style guide or a dictionary, right-click, and add the term to the dictionary, right? For one or two terms, that makes sense.

Before we talk about creating a custom dictionary, a little background might help. Word comes with a default custom dictionary called CUSTOM.DIC. When you right-click and select Add to Dictionary, Word adds the term to this file, not to its main dictionary.

An important point here is that you can enable more than one custom dictionary to run at a time, so there is no need to delete or modify CUSTOM. However, the file marked as the default will be where new terms are placed through Add to Dictionary.

Finally, scan through your style guide, right-click on the red-underlined terms, and click Add to Dictionary. These terms will be added to StyleGuide, not to CUSTOM, and changes are saved automatically.

Once you are done, you can navigate back to Custom Dictionaries and recheck CUSTOM and any other dictionaries you want to be active. You can switch the default back to CUSTOM if you want future terms added to that file.

Even if your colleagues have different terms than you do in their CUSTOM file, they will now have access to all the style guide terms via StyleGuide. None of you should see those terms underlined in red anymore because your spellcheck function aligns with your style guide.

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