How to add a dictionary for spell check in Android Studio / IntelliJ Idea

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I have been using Android Studio in Spanish, and it bothers me that it highlights as incorrect words which are spelt correctly.

Can I add a Spanish dictionary to Android Studio or to my IntelliJ Idea?

score 98 · Accepted Answer · edited Aug 29 '16 at 13:54

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You can download the Spanish (or any other language) ASCII dictionary from http://www.winedt.org/dictASCII.html and then add it to Android Studio as sebaszw said:

Go to Settings -> Spelling -> Dictionaries

Click plus symbol(+)

Select path to your dictionaries folder (inside you must have plaintext word lists with .dic extension)

Restart Android Studio

It worked for me without restarting Android Studio

edited Aug 29 '16 at 13:54

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answered Sep 11 '13 at 14:11

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Without restarting too! I tried the UNICODE file and it didn't work... With the ASCII file it works like a charm... – Renan Franca May 12 '14 at 22:00
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@RenanFranca I have the same problem, the UNICODE doesn't work and the ASCII has problems with special characters. – Doppelganger Oct 25 '14 at 14:20
Does it mean that the dictionary file has to remain in that path you specified in settings when adding it? – Redoman Jan 29 '15 at 20:49
Yes, you have to keep it in the specified folder. Otherwise it won't work. My advice is to have the dictionaries in a Dropbox/Drive/Mega/any_other folder so you can share it between different computers. – victor.hernandez Jan 30 '15 at 09:20
No Turkish, have to close spelling – ErTR Apr 08 '16 at 22:16
In Android Studio 3.4.1 the path is: File > Settings > Editor > Spelling – mathias.horn Jun 25 '19 at 11:29

Abigail La'Fay · Answer 2 · 2017-10-17T01:12:45.573

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In Android Studio (1.2.1.1 - 2.3.3) you can find this here:

File -> Settings -> Editor -> Spelling -> Dictionaries, and click "+" sign next to "Custom Dictionaries Folders" grid.

Important Note: You need to use UTF-8 character coding in your "language.dic" file if you would like to use an exotic language like Hungarian, Spanish, Portuguese, etc.

Download from http://www.winedt.org/dict.html the UNICODE language file.
Unzip and open it with Windows Notepad.
Use "Save as" and choose UTF-8 coding.
Open this file with Android Studio: File -> Settings -> Editor -> Spelling -> Dictionaries, and click "+" sign next to "Custom Dictionaries Folders" grid.
Restart Android Studio. Smile! You have not problems with nasty letters like "éÉíÍóÓöÖőŐúÚüÜűŰ".

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answered May 25 '15 at 20:21

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thanks! it fixed the accent marks (á, é, í, ó, ú) (spanish) – Matias Elorriaga Feb 13 '16 at 07:18
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Further more Android Studio will do nothing if the file is UTF-16 ! It has to be specifically UTF-8. It can be done like so "iconv -f utf-16 -t utf-8 myfile -o myfile_utf8" It might have to do with grep which also can't use UTF-16? http://www.kaapstorm.com/post/how-to-grep-utf-16/ – CaptainCrunch Sep 19 '16 at 18:15
Also worth noting that if it bothers you that much, you may want to disable spell checking in comments when using a dictionary for agglutinative languages (such as Hungarian to stay at your examples). Actual code elements are likely to be simple language-wise, but comments often contain words that cannot be resolved by dictionaries - they probably don't contain words with a prefix and 5 suffixes, or similar complexity. – sisisisi Nov 10 '18 at 16:47
For the German dictionary, iconv did not work with UTF-16 as input encoding. I had to use `iso-8859-1` (AKA "Latin-1"). – roskakori Jun 09 '22 at 09:28
Thanks, this fixes German encoding. Should be the accepted answer! – Pinolpier Jul 24 '22 at 15:46

score 7 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 04 '13 at 08:06

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Go to Settings -> Spelling -> Dictionaries
Click +
Select path to your dictionaries folder (inside you must have plaintext word lists with .dic extension)
Restart Android Studio

answered Jun 04 '13 at 08:06

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score 5 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 20 '18 at 09:27

Its Very Easy

Step 1: Go to File -> Settings -> Editor -> Spelling

Step 2: In Spelling -> select Tab 'Dictionaries'

Step 3: Click on '+'

Step 4: Select File that You want to put(file must be .dic extension)

Remember by default English language dictionary comes.

RESTART Android Studio is necessary.

score -3 · Answer 5 · edited Mar 18 '18 at 03:57

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Go into your Settings. Under "Language and Keyboard", go to and select "Android Keyboard" -> "Input language". Choose Spanish. That should do it!

Or, on Android 4, go to Settings -> Language & Keyboard -> Touch Input (settings button) -> Personal Dictionary -> Edit personal dictionary

The following link shows how to implement a spellchecker - you can implement this for multiple languages.

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answered May 23 '13 at 09:53

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That is not what he asked. The question is about spell check on Android Studio, not in Android itself as you answer. – victor.hernandez Sep 14 '13 at 03:22

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