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1. Overview

The custom dictionary is a special mechanism that allows creating company-wide dictionaries that are intended to extend the vocabulary of the standard dictionary with custom words specific to your industry, domain, etc. All the words added to a custom dictionary will be available for all users of a web application within a company. The custom dictionaries for Cloud customers are saved and stored on the WebSpellChecker Cloud servers. Such dictionaries can be created and modified only by a person who is authorized to access to the account panel on the webspellchecker.net website.


2. Availability

The custom dictionary functionality is available for all customers who are holding a Trial or Paid subscription to Cloud WebSpellChecker Services.

Good to know:

  • Management of custom dictionaries in the Cloud version is performed from a customer account panel at webspellchecker.net website.
  • The information about custom dictionaries is encoded in an encrypted customer ID key. If you add a new custom dictionary, or delete an existing one or just change the state of a dictionary from Enabled to Disable or vice versa, it change the information about custom dictionary(ies), and an encrypted customer ID key accordingly.



  • Each custom dictionary is tied to a customer ID of a specific subscription. 

3. Create Custom Dictionary

3.1. Sign in to your account panel at the webspellchecker­.net website using your customer ID and password. These credentials were sent to an email address specified during initial subscription to the Cloud Services.


3.2. Go to the Dictionaries section and click Add Custom Dictionaries.

3.3. Fill in all the necessary fields to create a new custom dictionary and click Save.

  • Enter a dictionary name;
  • Enter or copy/paste words separated by space or comma that you want to appear in the dictionary.

The maximum allowed size of a single custom dictionary is two million symbols including spaces and commas.

  • Select a language to apply a new custom dictionary for. The words from this custom dictionary will be used to extend the default wordlist of a chosen language dictionary.
  • Choose a state for a custom dictionary. Two values are possible: Enabled or Disabled.

3.4. Apply the changes made to the service configuration on your web page or web app.

The information about custom dictionaries is encoded in an encrypted customer ID key. If you add a new custom dictionary, or delete an existing one or just change the state of a dictionary from Enabled to Disable or vice versa, it change the information about custom dictionary(ies), and an encrypted customer ID key accordingly. Thus, in order to apply your changes, you are required to obtain the latest version of your encrypted customer ID and update the old key in your configuration with a new one.

  •  Download a new configuration file (config.ini) which contains your regenerated encrypted customer ID key. 

There are several options how you can do it: 

  • Click the configuration link directly from the Dictionary Information page (as shown on the image below).
  • Return to the start page of your account. Find the Downloads section and click Download configuration file.

  • Update your current encrypted customer ID with a new one in the service configuration on your web page or web app.

3.5. Verify the work of custom dictionary functionality.

Usually it takes up 30 minutes for such changes to go into effect on the WebSpellChecker Cloud servers.

  • Before trying to test the work of a new custom dictionary, it is strongly recommended to clean your browser cache. 
  • Go to your web page and enter a sentence or a list of words that have been added with a new custom dictionary. The words that are present in your custom dictionary should be considered as correct. Moreover, if you try to misspell any of these words, in a correction box your should get a correct word as a suggestion for correction.

4. Edit Custom Dictionary

4.1. Sign in to your account section at www­.webspellchecker­.net, using your customer ID and password to login into the account. The following information is provided via email after subscription. 

4.2. Go to the Dictionaries tab and choose "List of Custom Dictionaries"

4.3. Select the dictionary you want to edit

4.4. Click Edit

4.5. Change fields you need to edit

4.6. Click Save button


5. Delete Custom Dictionary

5.1. Sign in to your account section at www­.webspellchecker­.net, using your customer ID and password to login into the account. The following information is provided via email after subscription. 

5.2. Go to the Dictionaries tab and choose "List of Custom Dictionaries"


5.3. Select the dictionary you want to edit

5.4. Click Delete and confirm that you want to delete the Dictionary

5.5. Download the updated configuration file

5.6. Update your encrypted Customer ID in the configuration

5.7. Clean the browser cache

6. Custom Dictionary Verification

6.1. Open any demo page with instance, which contains WSC/SCAYT products

6.2. Write a new words – they shouldn't underlined with the red line

6.3. Make mistake in any of them and check the suggestions. Words from the Custom Dictionary are in the drop-down suggestion list.

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