This is for Windows 7 x64, but it's probably similar for Windows 8:
The project-specific dictionary is stored within the file project.xml
, which is inside the NetBeans project folder for your project. i.e.:
[path/to/your/project]/nbproject/project.xml
In this file, the custom words are found in <word>
tags in project > configuration > spellchecker-wordlist
The private dictionaries are stored in:
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\NetBeans\[version_number]\
So for me that was:
C:\Users\Myname\AppData\Roaming\NetBeans\8.0.1\private-dictionary-en_GB
The private dictionary is a file containing the words separated by newlines.
I had the same problem as @Martin (it's too easy to accidentally add a word) and I ended up doing a text search of the entire hard drive for these locations.