Eclipse spell checker - How do I remove a word I added?

Question

I accidentally added a word I'm forever mis-spelling into Eclipse's spell-checker dictionary. How do I get it back out again?

Answer 1

Eclipse puts the words you add into a text file, AKA the User defined dictionary.

You can find the location of this file at Window -> Preferences -> General -> Editors -> Text Editors -> Spelling -> User defined dictionary.

I believe that it's not set up by default - the first time you use the Add to dictionary feature it asks for the user dictionary location.

Open up the file in a text editor and remove the word you don't want. You'll probably need to restart Eclipse before it recognises the word as misspelled again (i.e. before it will re-read the user dictionary file).