Disable spell checking on IntelliJ IDEA

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I'm trying to disable spell checking in MacOS's IntelliJ IDEA version 8.1.

How can I disable it?

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intellij-ideaspell-checking
This applies to the Win version as well. – Almo

11 Answers

391
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Follow :

File >> Settings >> Editor >> Inspections >> Spelling >> Typo

-> Uncheck the options that you want to disable.

Source for more details - Spellchecking with intelliJ

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For 12.1.6 on OSX:

Preferences->Inspections->Spelling

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I've put together a "visual solution" here (inspired by a previous solution above/below by @user277236 in this forum!).

In Webstorm you can either:

  1. Disable spell checking entirely, or
  2. Disable spell checking selectively (e.g. just the code), but enable for some others (e.g. comments).

I'm on MacOS Webstorm (version 2016.1.2). First thing first, go to the "Inspection" pane like this...

Webstorm -> Preferences -> search for "Inspections"

or...

Webstorm -> Preferences -> Editor -> Inspections

Within the Inspection search box, search "Spelling".

Option 1 - Disable spell-checking entirely

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Option 2 - Disable spell-checking selectively

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I've gone for option 2 myself. This seems to work for me so far.

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In Windows and Android 2.3 ...

File -> Settings -> Inspections -> Spelling ...

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Use the annotation for the class / method / field

@SuppressWarnings("SpellCheckingInspection")
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update for 2020

File >> Settings >> Editor >> Inspections >> Proofreading (uncheck all)

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For Android Studio, I found "Inspections" directly under "Project Settings," and not under "IDE Settings/Editor".

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They need to introduce @spellcheck:off like the formatter.

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If you want to suppress in a file, you can use comment in file like <!--suppress SpellCheckingInspection --> in html.

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On Android Studio version 1.1 on Mac setting off Spelling from File menu does not work.

Set spelling from Android Studio > Preferences > Inspections.

Uncheck Typo and uncheck Spelling located in the first group of options "Project Settings".

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In MS, you can use Alt+Enter to disable the inspections.