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I accidentally added a word I'm forever mis-spelling into Eclipse's spell-checker dictionary. How do I get it back out again?
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If I highlight a word highlighted for misspelling, double-click (or highlight with the keyboard), and then hit CTRL+1 I can see the option to add the word to the dictionary. In various editors (like WikiText), this is the only way I've seen to add a word to the dictionary on the fly.
Eclipse has a built-in Spell Checker. Go to Window > Preferences > General > Editors > Text Editors > Spelling to enable it.
I can turn off the spelling checker with Window, Preferences, General, Editors, Text Editors and uncheck Enable Spell checking.
Eclipse puts the words you add into a text file, AKA the User defined dictionary.
You can find the location of this file at Window -> Preferences -> General -> Editors -> Text Editors -> Spelling -> User defined dictionary.
I believe that it's not set up by default - the first time you use the Add to dictionary feature it asks for the user dictionary location.
Open up the file in a text editor and remove the word you don't want. You'll probably need to restart Eclipse before it recognises the word as misspelled again (i.e. before it will re-read the user dictionary file).
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As mentioned in bug 51445, the user defined dictionary is any text file, by default with a '.dic' extension (but you can use any or no extension if you like).
The help page help you to locate that file.
alt text http://help.eclipse.org/ganymede/topic/org.eclipse.platform.doc.user/images/ref-spellingpref.png
As mentioned in bug 111265 (comment 2), you need to relaunch eclipse...
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