Does the spell checker on your smartphone keep reporting a fault on a perfectly spelled word? Worse, it fixes it for you, forcing you to carry out tedious manipulations to reinsert it into your text. Fortunately, Android provides a personal dictionary in which you can add your own words..
Add a word to the personal dictionary of Android
Like the vast majority of computer systems, Android has a spell checker. This tool will allow you to hunt for spelling and grammar errors in your messages, your working documents and all applications requiring text input (web browser, social networks, text editors).
Its operation is extremely simple. The spell checker corrects your mistakes as you type. For this it refers to a dictionary integrated directly into the heart of Android. But that's not all. The system is even capable of suggesting words to you based on what you have already entered..
Unfortunately it sometimes happens that this wonderful seizure. You've probably already typed a word that you know is correct but that Android reports as misspelled. In some cases, automatic correction even goes so far as to replace the word with an approaching term, thus modifying the meaning of your sentence.
Enter a word in the dictionary
In the vast majority of cases, the system automatically identifies the words it does not know and offers to add them to the dictionary. Sometimes a grain of sand causes failures in this beautiful oiled mechanism. To stop seeing your message and text full of unwelcome words, it may be worth adding a word, phrase or email signature to the Android dictionary manually ..
Not sure how to use this feature? No problem, we will explain it to you
- Open your Android mobile settings
- Press the Language and input section
- In the Keyboard and input method section, click on the name of the keyboard activated by default on your smartphone (Gboard in this example)
- Select the Dictionary option
- Press Personal Dictionary then French
- Click on the + button
- Type the word you want to add to the dictionary
- Press the check mark button on your touch keyboard
Delete a word from the personal dictionary
Did you just add an incorrect expression to the dictionary? Did a misspelled word slip into your personal dictionary by mistake? We explain how to delete it.
- Open your personal dictionary by following the procedure described above
- Select the word accidentally added to your personal dictionary
- Press the delete trash can button
To make typing on your smartphone even faster and more enjoyable, Android offers a system for creating virtual shortcuts. So for example instead of typing please accept my best regards, you will create a shortcut and associate it with the value vasd .
The next time you type the abbreviation vasd in an email, message or document, the spell checker will suggest the expression attached to this shortcut in the list of suggestions. Namely in this example the courtesy formula previously recorded.
To use this feature, I invite you to read the following article: create keyboard shortcuts on an Android mobile. You can also use this system to ask your Android to suggest the correct spelling of a word you are used to scratching.
