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About Hunspell Custom dictionaries

SDL Trados Studio contains Hunspell dictionaries for a number of languages. However:

  • Studio does not contain dictionaries for all supported languages.
  • You probably use many words that are not included in the provided dictionaries, for example the names of companies and products.

Hence, you might want to add words to a custom dictionary, or to import whole dictionaries into Studio.

Name and Location of Custom Dictionaries

By default custom dictionaries are in the folder:

...\document and settings\<user name>\Application data\SDL\SpellChecker\

They have the file name extension .dic.

Each customer dictionary has an associated affix file, which lists acceptable prefixes and suffixes to words. If you do not provide an affix file in the Add custom dictionary command, Studio creates an empty one.