# Spell Check Dictionary Download Failed (Linux)

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**Category:** Brave Browser\
**Tags:** linux\
**Created:** [June 29, 2020, 7:51pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/spell-check-dictionary-download-failed-linux/138499 "2020-06-29T19:51:54Z")\
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I am having the same problem, and I have a workaround to offer, at least for Linux systems. The directory where Brave stores its dictionaries is:

`~/.config/Brave-Browser/Dictionaries`

On my system, that directory is empty. However, I have both Chromium and Chrome installed, and they have equivalent directories with dictionaries:

```
~/.config/chromium/Dictionaries/en-US-9-0.bdic
~/.config/google-chrome/Dictionaries/en-US-9-0.bdic

```

I copied the file, “en-US-9-0.bdic” to the “Brave-Browser/Dictionaries” directory, then restarted Brave, and spell checking started working.

I have tried this on Linux only. Hope it helps!

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