VSCode Dictionary Completion

Dictionary completion allows user to get a list of keywords, based off of the current word at the cursor.

This is useful if you are typing a long word (e.g. acknowledgeable) and don't want to finish typing or don't remember the spelling

— adapted from vim wikia

Markdown / LaTeX / HTML

Python / JS / TS / C / C++

• NOTE: As of VSCode v1.10.0, quick suggestions for Markdown is disabled by default. To enable it, put

  "[markdown]": {
      "editor.quickSuggestions": true
  }

  into your settings.json.

• To enable completion for programming languages (e.g. Python/JS/TS), be sure to use this setting

  "editor.quickSuggestions": {
      "other": true,
      "comments": true, // !!!
      "strings": true   // !!!
  }

  You can also use language specific ones like [markdown] above.

• Code Spell compatible. Words in cSpell.userWords and cSpell.words are included in the suggestion.

• Hunspell format compatible.

Commands

Completion: Open User Dictionary

Settings

Name	Default	Description
dictCompletion.leastNumOfChars	0	Only show completion list until typing N characters
dictCompletion.useExternalUserDictFile	true	When set to false, load custom words from userDictionary in the VSCode user settings
dictCompletion.externalUserDictFiles	[]	A list of paths to dictionary files
dictCompletion.userDictionary	[]	User wordlist (should be an array of string) if useExternalUserDictFile is false
dictCompletion.programmingLanguage	true	Whether to enable dictionary completion in string and comment of common programming languages

Changelog

See here.

Credit

Icons made by Freepik from www.flaticon.com is licensed by CC 3.0 BY

Other Resources

• SCOWL (Spell Checker Oriented Word Lists)
• English Dictionaries Project (AOO+Mozilla+others)
• google-10000-english