As you translate, the Editor underlines words it does not recognize. Right-click an underlined word to correct it, or to tell the Editor the word is fine so it stops being flagged.
There are two ways to accept a word, and they reach different people:
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My words: the word is correct for you only. Nobody else is affected, and no permission is needed.
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The dictionary: the word is correct for everyone on the platform, in that language.
Fixing a flagged word
Right-click a word with a red underline. The menu lists spelling suggestions; click one to replace the word in the segment.
Accepting a word for yourself
When the Editor flags a word you know is correct (a brand, a product name, an internal term), right-click it and select Add to My words. The underline clears immediately and stays cleared after a reload and on any other device you work from.
Your words are personal: no other user sees them, and no permission is required to add them. Each language has its own list.
A quality assurance run also treats your words as correct, as long as you are the person who launched the check. A colleague running the same check on the same content still sees the word flagged, because they have their own list.
Add to dictionary is only available to users who have the permission to add shared words. Add to My words and the My words panel are available to everyone, including reviewers who have read-only access to a language: managing your own words is a personal preference, not a content change.
Managing your words
Open Preferences > QA. Each language in the Dictionaries section has its own Manage My words panel. Expand the panel for the language you want.
Follow these steps to add a word from Preferences:
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Open Preferences > QA and expand Manage My words under the language.
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Type the word in the New word field.
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Click Add. The word appears in the list, sorted alphabetically for that language.
The panel also lets you:
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Search your list, useful once it holds dozens of words.
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Remove a single word with the ✕ next to it.
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Remove every word for the language with Clear all, which asks you to confirm first.
A counter below the list shows how many words the language holds.
Only single words can be added. Add stays disabled for anything containing a space, and a tooltip explains why: the spellchecker works word by word.
If a language is set to Browser or has no dictionary configured, the panel is shown but inactive, with an explanation. Any words you already saved for that language are kept.
Sharing your words with everyone
Each language has one dictionary, shared by everyone on the platform. When your personal list has built up words your colleagues would also benefit from, you can move them across in one action.
Follow these steps to share your words:
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Open Preferences > QA and expand Manage My words under the language.
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Click Add to dictionary.
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Read the confirmation, which lists the words that will be shared, and confirm.
Words already in the dictionary are skipped rather than duplicated, and your own list is unchanged afterwards. Because the dictionary is shared, this cannot be undone from the Editor: removing a word from the dictionary is done in Settings > Quality Assurance > Spellcheck Dictionaries.
You can also share a single word straight from the grid: right-click the flagged word and select Add to dictionary.
Which dictionary the word is written to depends on your preferred dictionary for that language, which you set in Preferences > QA. If you have Browser selected for a language, Add to dictionary has no effect: select one of the platform dictionaries for that language first.
Learn More
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Spellcheck Dictionaries: How the shared dictionaries are configured and maintained, and how administrators remove a shared word.
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QA Panel: Run broader quality checks, including the spelling rule, before delivery.
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Preferences: Set your preferred dictionary per language and other Editor options.