"Ignore spelling" (only this specific instance, but always)

Manual: “Using the Spell Check Window” and “Spell Check Contextual Menu” imply that “Ignore Spelling” will “temporarily ignore the misspelled word for that session, in all documents throughout the project”

Question: is there an “ignore spelling” method that ignores a specific instance across sessions? (there is only one hit for “ignore spelling” in the manual)

Reason: Very occasionally there is a need for a word that looks like a misspelling of another word, but isn’t, in which case I don’t want:

  • To learn that rare spelling because I might then miss misspellings of the more common word
  • To “ignore it for this session” because that spelling is the right spelling for that instance
  • To ignore it across all documents because, this is a rare instance

(IIRC correctly, behind the scenes the instance word is tagged as “no spell check”, which, being a text attribute like font, colour, etc. would seem a priori likely to be supported.)

c.f. MS Word

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and the “traditional spell check” illustrated in the manual, which does not have the “ignore once”

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Have Scrivener learn the spelling.
Note it down.
Later go to your personal word list and delete it.

Learned words are not actually in the dictionary.

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I want to ignore specific instances. Please can you explain how learning a word ignores a specific instance and not all instances?

In that case highlight it so you’ll know.
There is no way to achieve specifically that. Sorry.

Or perhaps you could trick the software by inserting a word joiner to the word.
Making it a unique word, without any visual difference…
I don’t know for sure, but worth investigating.

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If you do that, of course insert it somewhere logical, because that’s where the software (any software) will split the word later on should you have your text set to a formatting that fills the lines but isn’t JUSTIFY.