Spellcheck and Grammar

Hello,
I accidentally had the dictionary learn a misspelling instead of correcting it. How do I "unlearn" the word?
Thanks!

In applications that are native to mac all you have to do is highlight the word, control click it, and click "unlearn spelling".
With microsoft word you can undo adding it to the dictionary.

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