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InDesign workaround to catch English UK "z" words in spellcheck/dynamic/autocorrect

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April 2, 2025
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Hi, I've been researching this issue: when InDesign documents are set to the 'English UK' dictionary, it does not consider "z" words (ex. "compromize", "capitalization") misspelled because both "z" and "s" versions of the words are acceptable. However, since most English UK speakers/businesses prefer to use the "s" versions of these words, is there a way in InDesign to get around this issue and flag the "z" versions as incorrectly spelled?

I know you can manually add/remove words in dictionaries, but there's too many different "z" words to add manually one by one. Maybe there's a GREP solution, but I've only found GREP solutions that call out 1 or more words that have a very similar type of spelling and this issue covers a broad spectrum of many different types of "z" spelled words. Is there maybe a different/custom English UK dictionary somewhere out there that can be loaded into InDesign to address this issue? Or another solution?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance.

解決に役立った回答 Peter Kahrel

Actually, that should be

z(?=(e[ds]?|ations?)\b)

Sorry.

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Mahesh_Saud6452

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Peter Kahrel

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z-spelling is acceptable in UK English,that's why it's accepted by InDesign.

You can look for z-spellings using this grep expression:

z(?=(e[ds]|ations?)\b)

which looks for words that end in ze, zes, zed, zation, or zations and highlights only the z.

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spikel_work作成者

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Thanks Peter! This GREP expression might be a great solution. I'm a GREP novice, so I couldn't think of something like this, but I'm excited to try it. I'll report back here once I test it out. Appreciate the help!

Abhishek Rao

Community Manager

Hi @spikel_work,

I tried reproducing the issue on my end, and it seems to be working as expected i.e., if I type "compromize," InDesign flags it as incorrect and suggests "compromise" as the correct spelling. Could you share which version of InDesign you're using and the details of your operating system?

It would also be helpful to test this after resetting your preferences to see if that makes a difference. Ref: Reset InDesign Preferences. Just make sure to back up your preferences before resetting.

Additionally, could you share a screenshot of your Dictionary and Spelling preferences settings? Looking forward to your update!

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Abhishek

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spikel_work作成者

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Sorry, I made a spelling error. "compromize" wasn't a good example since that is incorrect in both English US and UK. "Realize" vs "Realise" is a better example, along with "capitalization" vs "capitalisation".

I'm using InDesign 2025 (20.2 x64)

Abhishek Rao

Community Manager

And Windows 11

Hi @spikel_work,

Thanks for the clarification there. While you try the suggestion from Peter, I’ve reproduced the behavior on my end and observed that in the English UK dictionary setting, “z” spellings (like realize or capitalization) are not flagged, while the preferred “s” spellings (realise, capitalisation) are incorrectly marked as misspelled.

I have escalated this to the product team for confirmation on the working of the dictionary.

Thanks for bringing this up!

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Abhishek

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