diff --git a/src/modules/backends/web/qtwebengine/QtWebEngineWebBackend.cpp b/src/modules/backends/web/qtwebengine/QtWebEngineWebBackend.cpp
index d632d0a4c..fac7107d0 100644
--- a/src/modules/backends/web/qtwebengine/QtWebEngineWebBackend.cpp
+++ b/src/modules/backends/web/qtwebengine/QtWebEngineWebBackend.cpp
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 #include "../../../../core/NetworkManagerFactory.h"
 #include "../../../../core/NotificationsManager.h"
 #include "../../../../core/SettingsManager.h"
+#include "../../../../core/SpellCheckManager.h"
 #include "../../../../core/TransfersManager.h"
 #include "../../../../core/Utils.h"
 #include "../../../../ui/TransferDialog.h"
@@ -52,6 +53,8 @@ QtWebEngineWebBackend::QtWebEngineWebBackend(QObject *parent) : WebBackend(paren
 	m_engineVersion = QRegularExpression(QLatin1String("Chrome/([\\d\\.]+)")).match(userAgent).captured(1);
 
 	m_userAgentComponents = {{QLatin1String("platform"), QRegularExpression(QLatin1String(R"((\([^\)]+\)))")).match(userAgent).captured(1)}, {QLatin1String("engineVersion"), QLatin1String("AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/") + m_engineVersion}, {QLatin1String("applicationVersion"), QCoreApplication::applicationName() + QLatin1Char('/') + QCoreApplication::applicationVersion()}};
+
+	qputenv("QTWEBENGINE_DICTIONARIES_PATH", SpellCheckManager::getDictionariesPath().toLatin1());
 }
 
 void QtWebEngineWebBackend::handleDownloadRequested(QWebEngineDownloadItem *item)