OS X spell checker worthless; how can it be edited?

The advice in Mac Help, "If you accidentally add a misspelled word to the dictionary, type the misspelling in the Spelling dialog, then click Forget" is ridiculous. How do I know how I misspelled it? I know I have misspelled words in my dictionary; the longer I use my spell checker, the less effective it becomes.
Is there any way of actually seeing the list of words I've added? We used to be able to do that with a third-party spellchecker (I think Spell Catcher?), and editing out errors was simple.
Example: "cstcher" is accepted as correct. Selecting it, going to Edit > Spelling > Spelling, 'guess' field is grayed out; writing "cstcher" in correct field activates Guess, clicking Guess produces nothing, clicking Forget seems to accomplish nothing; "cstcher" is still accepted as correct. "rediculous" is accepted as correct and does not produce any guesses unless I add it into the guess field.
I need a spell checker that works! Most of the words that I misspell are not identified as misspelled.

This is what I actually wrote; reply evidently corrupted three times in both Safari and Firefox. I’ve restarted; hope this posts.
Francine, thank you. I opened ‘en’ with TextEdit, and there were only about 50 words (impossible to count accurately), and except for ‘√©s‘, and ‘
So this solved my first problem: how to edit it. Surely an inferior editor.
But I’ve still got the spell checker malfunctioning...
Oh well, I did upgrade to Spell Catcher X 10.2.2, as Matthew Whiting first suggested; SC X seems better now than it was when I quit using it a couple of years ago. Perhaps between the two... But why Apple’s spell checker doesn’t inform me of misspellings is still a mystery. The words I’d mentioned (cstcher - rediculous) are not in the ‘en’ file, and interestingly enough, they both have red lines under them in this post...
Thanks for taking the time to find tis answer for me... (Hey, know what? I just spelled ‘this’ as ‘tis’, and no red underline. And it’s not in the dictionary or the ‘en’ file...)
And Spell Checker didn’t catch it either. Says it is correct, in the Proximity/Franklin U.S. English Thesaurus, so I unchecked that reference.
Daru

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