Where is ispell private dictionary located on Spacemacs?

Question

My Spacemacs help ispell-personal-dictionary says:

ispell-personal-dictionary is a variable defined in ‘ispell.el’.
Its value is nil

Documentation:
File name of your personal spelling dictionary, or nil.
If nil, the default personal dictionary, ("~/.ispell_DICTNAME" for ispell or
"~/.aspell.LANG.pws" for Aspell) is used, where DICTNAME is the name of your
default dictionary and LANG the two letter language code.

But there is no "~/.ispell_DICTNAME" or "~/.aspell_DICTNAME" on my system:

$ ls -A .isp*
ls: cannot access '.isp*': No such file or directory
$ ls -A .asp*
ls: cannot access '.asp*': No such file or directory

ispell is working and I accidentaly added a misspelled word to it. Now I want to remove the entry from my ispell private dictionary.

How to find the ispell private dictionary location?

System Info :computer:

• OS: gnu/linux
• Emacs: 25.3.1
• Spacemacs: 0.200.10
• Spacemacs branch: master (rev. 4bb4cb46)
• Graphic display: t
• Distribution: spacemacs
• Editing style: vim
• Completion: ivy
• Layers: elisp (c-c++ emacs-lisp evil-snipe git ivy org shell spell-checking)
• System configuration features: XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK SOUND DBUS GCONF GSETTINGS NOTIFY ACL LIBSELINUX GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE M17N_FLT LIBOTF XFT ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK3 X11 MODULES XWIDGETS

UPDATE 1:

aspell doesn't seem to be on my system:

$ aspell -h
bash: aspell: command not found.

UPDATE 2:

I found aspell, but it's unresponsive:

$ pwd
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions
$ ls aspell
aspell
$ aspell --lang=en dump config
bash: aspell: command not found...
Install package 'aspell' to provide command 'aspell'? [N/y] n
$ aspell -h
bash: aspell: command not found.
$ sudo ./aspell -h
sudo: ./aspell: command not found

UPDATE 3:

To uninstall aspell, I commented spell-checking in ~/.spacemacs, and restarted Emacs.

Then I reinstalled as described in https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/tree/master/layers/+checkers/spell-checking#install and restarted Emacs again. Emacs opening page said:

Found 3 new package(s) to install...
--> refreshing package archive: melpa-stable... [2/2]
--> installing package: flyspell-correct-ivy@spell-checking... [3/3]

Still have same result with absolute path:

$ sudo /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/aspell -h
sudo: /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/aspell: command not found

UPDATE 4:

From Spacemacs help - SPC SPC h d v ispell-program-name:

ispell-program-name is a variable defined in ‘ispell.el’.
Its value is "/usr/bin/hunspell"

From command line:

$ hunspell -v
@(#) International Ispell Version 3.2.06 (but really Hunspell 1.5.4)
$ hunspell -h

I googled: emacs private dictionary location

Still not finding the location of my private dictionary.

Answer 1

First, look at the variable ispell-personal-dictionary. If itʼs set, thatʼs your answer.

Next, look at the variable ispell-program-name. This is the spell-checking backend that Emacs is currently using, and each backend will store your private dictionary in a different place:

• Aspell: ~/.aspell.??.pws
• Enchant: ~/.config/enchant/*.dic
• Hunspell: ~/.hunspell_*

In each case, the exact file used will vary based on the language youʼre using.

Answer 2

I never found the Emacs private dictionary on Debian 9. But when I installed Fedora 28, it was easily found at ~/.hunspell_en_US

Answer 3

On my Ubuntu system, it's located at ~/.aspell.en.pws