WPS Office v11.* dictionary
Posted: 2021-04-03 Filed under: office | Tags: dictionary, libreoffice, spellcheck, WPS Office 8 CommentsI noticed that an old post of mine about adding dictionaries to WPS Office, has been receiving some attention recently. I quickly checked the links and it seems they are dead, also the file paths listed there no longer apply for WPS Office v11. Therefore, I decided to check how to add dictionaries to version 11.
I am using WPS Office 11.1.0.9719.XA installed from SBo on Slackware64 -current. First you need to have the dictionaries files. Since the ones from WPS office are no longer available (or I simply cannot find them), I searched a bit and ended up with the dictionaries for LibreOffice found here. I suppose you can download only the ones you need, however, I just downloaded the whole collection and unzipped it.
As in my old post, I want to have British English spellcheck. What I need is found in the en
folder, but it has to be prepared for WPS Office as follows:
- Create a folder
en_GB
- Copy files
en_GB.aff
anden_GB.dic
to the newly created folder and rename them asmain.aff
andmain.dic
, respectively. - Create a file called
dict.conf
within folderen_GB
with the following contents:
[Dictionary] DisplayName=English (UK) DisplayName[en_GB]=English (UK)
Ok, so where does this folder go? The en_GB
folder should be placed in either:
- for your user only:
~/.local/share/Kingsoft/office6/dicts/
- system-wide:
/opt/kingsoft/wps-office/office6/dicts/spellcheck/
Then just restart WPS Office. To select the dictionary go to:

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There was an old AUR package called “wps-office-extension-english-uk-dictionary”. Adding to the google trail should anyone want to package it again.
thanks!
do you have a link to this?
https://github.com/HoLuLuLu/wps-office-multilang/tree/master/wps-office-bin/opt/kingsoft/wps-office/office6/dicts/spellcheck
happy new year!
hey, thanks! I’ll give it a try and maybe make a third post dedicated to WPS dictionaries
Happy New Year, too!
Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan you saved my life, i just needed the spanish dictionaire and couldnt find anyother place else, kudos for you. Cheers from méxico
I’m glad it was useful. :)
Did you use the dictionary from LibreOffice (from the post) or the ones Mao above suggested?