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How to Forbid Words

Making Words Forbidden

There are several ways to mark a word as forbidden:

1. In a custom word list with words beginning with !.

   !forbiddenWord
   companyname
   jQuery
   projectname
   

   forbiddenWord will always be marked as misspelled. While companyname will be considered correct.

2. In words section of cspell configuration:

   "words": [
       "!forbiddenWord",
       "configstore"
   ],
   

3. In flagWords section of cspell configuration:

   "flagWords": ["forbiddenWord"]
   

Overriding Forbidden words

Sometimes it is necessary to allow a word even if it is forbidden.

In a comment

/**
 * Do not mark `forbiddenWord` as incorrect.
 * cspell:ignore forbiddenWord
 */

In the cspell configuration

{
  "ignoreWords": ["forbiddenWord"]
}