chore(dictionaries): add technical terms flagged by spelling check by nielskaspers · Pull Request #43907 · mdn/content

nielskaspers · 2026-04-23T06:27:42Z

Summary

Adds the valid technical terms flagged by the automated weekly spelling check (#43850) to the spell-check dictionaries so future scans stop reporting them as unknown words.

Issue

Fixes #43850

Fixes #43993

The two actual typos (scrset → srcset, LUNDDUN → LINDDUN) were already corrected in #43852. This PR handles the remaining items from the same report, all of which are legitimate terms that need to be dictionary-allowed rather than edited out of the content.

Changes

.vscode/dictionaries/code-entities.txt:
- andnot — WebAssembly SIMD bitwise instruction
- bitselect — WebAssembly SIMD bitwise instruction
- laneidx — WebAssembly SIMD immediate operand
- memidx — WebAssembly immediate operand
- myattr — placeholder attribute name used in the CSS `attr()` namespace example
`.vscode/dictionaries/proper-names.txt`:
- LINDDUN — privacy-focused threat-modeling framework (referenced in `web/security/threat_modeling/`)

Entries were inserted in the existing alphabetical position for each file.

Testing

Docs-only change; no content files modified.
Ran `grep` to verify each term has at least one occurrence in `files/en-us/` so the dictionary addition is backed by real usage.

…ling check (mdn#43850)

github-actions · 2026-05-04T02:25:05Z

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URL: /en-US/docs/Web/API/CrashReportContext
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macros:
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Title: attr() CSS function
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- Link /en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/Values/ident-token doesn't resolve

URL: /en-US/docs/Web/WebDriver/Reference/BiDi/Modules/log/entryAdded
Title: log.entryAdded event
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Title: HTML images

https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/CC0 (1 time) (Note! This may be a new URL 👀)

URL: /en-US/docs/Learn_web_development/Extensions/Testing/Testing_strategies
Title: Strategies for carrying out testing

https://endtest.io/ (1 time) (Note! This may be a new URL 👀)

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https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs (1 time) (Note! This may be a new URL 👀)

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https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/CC0 (1 time) (Note! This may be a new URL 👀)

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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ (1 time) (Note! This may be a new URL 👀)
https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/CC0 (1 time) (Note! This may be a new URL 👀)

URL: /en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Elements/meta/name/robots
Title: <meta name="robots"> HTML attribute value

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/robots-meta-tag (4 times) (Note! This may be a new URL 👀)
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https://www.bing.com/webmasters/help/robots-meta-tags-and-attributes-that-bing-supports-5198d240 (3 times) (Note! This may be a new URL 👀)

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Title: HTTP caching

https://mnot.net/cache_docs/ (1 time) (Note! This may be a new URL 👀)

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Title: Alt-Svc header

https://mnot.net/blog/2016/alt-svc (1 time) (Note! This may be a new URL 👀)

URL: /en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/Headers/Cache-Control
Title: Cache-Control header

https://mnot.net/cache_docs/ (1 time) (Note! This may be a new URL 👀)

URL: /en-US/docs/Web/Media/Guides/Formats/Audio_codecs
Title: Web audio codec guide

https://www.via-la.com/licensing-programs/aac/ (1 time) (Note! This may be a new URL 👀)

URL: /en-US/docs/Web/Media/Guides/Formats/Video_codecs
Title: Web video codec guide

https://www.via-la.com/ (1 time) (Note! This may be a new URL 👀)
https://www.via-la.com/licensing-programs/avc-h-264/ (2 times) (Note! This may be a new URL 👀)
https://www.via-la.com/licensing-programs/hevc-vvc/ (2 times) (Note! This may be a new URL 👀)
https://www.via-la.com/licensing-programs/mpeg-2/ (1 time) (Note! This may be a new URL 👀)
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URL: /en-US/docs/Web/Security/Threat_modeling/Frameworks
Title: Threat modeling frameworks and tools

https://w3c.github.io/security-questionnaire/ (1 time) (Note! This may be a new URL 👀)

URL: /en-US/docs/WebAssembly/Guides/C_to_Wasm
Title: Compiling a new C/C++ module to WebAssembly

https://en.cppreference.com/c/program/atexit (1 time) (Note! This may be a new URL 👀)

(comment last updated: 2026-05-04 02:42:03)

Josh-Cena

Sorry for the wait. Thank you!

* upstream/main: (150 commits) PWA relative links (mdn#43953) feat(jsondata): add `external_link` translation key (mdn#43978) Clarify when var() falls back to its second argument (mdn#44015) Correct incorrect filename on learn assessment (mdn#44012) FF151 Relnote CanvasRenderingContext2D.lang (mdn#44010) FF151: Update container style queries support (mdn#44002) Firefox experimental features clean-up (mdn#43887) FF151 Relnote: shadowrootslotassignment (mdn#43881) Editorial review: Document WebGPU compatibility mode (mdn#43944) Correction of solution (mdn#44001) Synchronize with BCD v7.3.14 (mdn#44007) Editorial review: Document texture_and_sampler_let WGSL feature (mdn#43768) Editorial review: Document NavigationTransition.committed (mdn#43692) Update window.open on document / window creation and load behavior (mdn#43913) FF151 Relnote: keyboardLock option for Element.requestFullScreen() (mdn#43883) FF118 keyboard value for Window Event tidy (mdn#43942) Bump yaml from 2.8.3 to 2.8.4 (mdn#44005) Rename Stylesheet glossary definition to Style sheet (mdn#43997) Clarify else-if evaluation order (mdn#43917) chore(dictionaries): add technical terms flagged by spelling check (mdn#43907) ... # Conflicts: # files/en-us/web/api/svgscriptelement/async/index.md # files/en-us/web/api/svgscriptelement/index.md

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