Spelling - how can I eliminate a word I accepted

The spelling checker is very helpful in all the applications.
But how do I eliminate a word I hastily agreed to learn even though it was misspelled?
Is there a list of these words somewhere so I can eliminate one or two words?

Hi Judy,
The Mac OS custom dictionary is stored in user/Library/Spelling. There's a file for each language you have used (en is the English one). These are used in most of the apps that have the option to check spelling as you type (Safari, Mail, etc.). Note that MS Office apps use their own set of custom dictionaries, and you can edit those pretty easily - easier that the Mac OS dictionary at any rate.
It's a text file, so you can open it with TextEdit (via Open With...Other), but if you do it will appear that all the words are run together, because they are written to the file with an invisible separator.
So, you need a different text editor.
Download iText. Here's the download link (which I'm posting because it took me a while to find it on the developer's page):
http://homepage.mac.com/lightway/itext316e_macx.dmg.zip
Launch the app, and select Edit menu > Preferences and check the box to Show Invisibles. Then, select File > Open, change the Enable pop-up menu to All Documents, and open the "en" file in user/Library/Spelling. You can directly edit that list (just be sure to leave one separator between each entry) and save the file.
Hope this helps...

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