Linux and iPadOS user here.
You didn’t state which platform you’re working on.
So to make it nice and quick, I’m going to bring up some points here:
- The mobile spellchecker is not on par with the desktop one. It seems to work in a different way, relying on the built-in spellchecker of the OS (iOS, Android).
- The dictionary is the user dictionary. It will be populated by words you add to the dictionary. It works when it has zero items. Zero items in dictionary has no bearing on the functionality. Everyone starts out at zero items.
- One trick I’ve learned about helping the Obsidian Spellchecker kick in is that removing the languages, re-adding them, then disabling and re-enabling the Spellchecker with the tumbler switch makes it work. This routine may not be needed anymore (for all OS’s) but I’ll probably never stop doing it…
- I was kind of tempted to leave the typo “spellhecker” in…