Spell Check and Corrections

Configure spell checking in 34 languages for your documents in Craft.

Craft includes spell checking support for 34 languages to help you catch spelling issues in your documents. You can set a default language globally in Preferences, or change it for specific documents.

Global Spell Check Settings

macOS

Navigate to Preferences (click your avatar in the top left), select the Language tab, and choose your preferred language from the Spelling dropdown.

iOS

Tap your avatar in the bottom right, select Preferences, then tap Language and Spelling. Choose your preferred language from the Spelling dropdown.

Document-Level Spell Check

To change the spell check language for a specific document:

macOS

Open the document, then look for the Spelling option in the left sidebar under the Info tab (4th tab), below Location.

iOS

Document-level spell check settings are configured in the document info panel. Tap the info button to access these settings.

The document-level setting is perfect when you need to write in different languages across your workspace.

Managing Learned Words

Craft delegates spell checking to the operating system — it does not maintain its own spelling dictionary. Learned words are stored and managed at the system level, not inside Craft.

When the spell checker flags a correctly spelled word, you can teach the system to recognise it. Once learned, the word is no longer underlined in Craft or any other app that uses the same OS spell checker.

Learning a Word

macOS

Right-click the underlined word and select Learn Spelling from the context menu. The word is added to the system dictionary shared across all macOS apps.

iOS

Tap the underlined word to open the suggestion bar, then tap Learn Spelling. The word is added to the system dictionary used across all iOS apps.

Unlearning a Word

If you accidentally learned a misspelled word, you can remove it.

macOS

Open Terminal and run:

open ~/Library/Spelling/LocalDictionary

This opens the file in TextEdit. Remove the unwanted word (one word per line), save, and restart Craft.

iOS

Tap the word, then tap Unlearn Spelling in the suggestion bar.

If you need to reset all learned words at once, go to the iOS Settings app → General → Transfer or Reset iPhone → Reset → Reset Keyboard Dictionary.

If iCloud Keyboard sync is enabled (Settings → Apple Account → iCloud → Show All → iCloud Drive, then check whether Keyboard is syncing), previously learned words may be restored from iCloud after a reset. Disable iCloud Keyboard sync before resetting the dictionary if you want a clean slate.