Google Ads Editor automatically detects misspelled words in English and underlines them with a dotted red line. If the spelling of an underlined word was intentional, you can right-click the word and select “Add to dictionary”. Google Ads Editor will recognize that particular spelling as correct in the future.
Review the instructions below to learn how to download and install spell-check dictionaries for languages other than English.
How to install spell-check dictionaries for other languages
To spell-check ads and keywords in languages other than English, you must first add the appropriate language dictionary to Google Ads Editor installation. Follow these steps:
- Find links to the available Hunspell spell-check dictionaries from that project’s website. For any language lang, you will need 2 files lang.dic and lang.aff.
- These might be available directly from the Hunspell project links in which case you can directly download the 2 files. You might also find links to the dictionaries in the form of LibreOffice extensions. Download the dictionary extension for your desired language and unzip the file. You should find the lang.dic and lang.aff files in the uncompressed archive.
- Make sure the 2 files have the same name excluding the file name suffix. Rename them if needed.
- Move the 2 files to the Google Ads Editor dictionaries folder.
- On Windows: "C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\Google\Google-AdWords-Editor\dictionaries\"
- On MacOS: "/Users/${USER}/Library/Application Support/Google/Google-AdWords-Editor/dictionaries/"
- In Google Ads Editor, select the Preferences menu.
- Select the Download and display tab.
- Under "Spell check language," select the new language you want to use.
- Note: If the language doesn’t appear here, you may not have put the files in the right folder.
Google Ads Editor will start underlining text that doesn’t match the new language dictionary. The language setting for spell check will not change if you alter the setting for display language.
Unsupported dictionary file encodings
Starting with version 2.4 of Google Ads Editor, only dictionary files encoded in UTF-8 are supported. The site from which you download the files may list the encoding, but you can also determine it by looking at the line that begins “SET” in the .aff file. It’s also possible to manually convert the file encoding. If you do so, be sure to change the line beginning “SET” in the .aff file to “SET UTF-8”.