Use a spellcheck dictionary that isn't missing tons of standard English words

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Use case or problem

  • I’ve recently started up a new vault and I’m experiencing constant friction having to add words to the spellcheck dictionary that are standard English words listed in online sources like m-w.com
  • examples: workspaces, unresolvable, unactivated, unarticulated, transformative, subtasks, subfolders, reframing, renunciatory, metacognitive, maladaptive, irreducibility, journaling, knower, hypervigilant, experientially, effortfully, complementarity, affective, affordances, agentic, animalistic, associational, attunement
  • other example words common in PKM contexts even if not standard English: backlink, uplink, callout

Proposed solution

  • give Obsidian a spellcheck dictionary that isn’t missing tons of standard English words

Current workaround (optional)

  • manually adding lots of words, often with a copy-paste into an online dictionary just to confirm I didn’t typo anything, which introduces constant friction into my workflow

Related feature requests (optional)

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The examples you provided work fine for me except “unactivated”, which I don’t think exists.

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Yes, the correct word is deactivated. i.e. to make something inactive.

4

That’s very strange. What could possibly account for the difference? Why would my Obsidian’s spellcheck dictionary be missing many words that yours doesn’t?

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Mines is similarly missing words like that. My uneducated guess is that they are word built upon a base word that is in the dictionary, but the dictionary only has a rudimentary selection for some reason. I am using Linux + Flatpak if that is meaningful personally

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I’m also using Linux + Flatpak, so maybe that’s related somehow.

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Pardon, you’re also running into that since Obsidian doesn’t support Flatpak, they probably wouldn’t take a feature request for it.