List of words my keyboard won't spell

[mavis]

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Am I the only one who sees this as a plus rather than a minus? The iPhone keyboard assumes what letter you're more than likely to type next, and expands the responsive area of the keyboard.



99.9% of the time, it works great. The times it doesn't, just send yourself a quick email with the word you wish to type, and the iPhone will add it to it's dictionary. Even easier than adding fake contacts.



Goose. Goose, goose. Mejor, tomar, tomay.

No, I agree with you - it's not a perfect system, but for most people, most of the time, it works great.



The emailing thing is a neat trick too, BTW - but it doesn't work with capitalization. I just tried entering the name of a dep't store by my house (eCute) but after emailing myself, all the iPhone did was autocorrect to all lower case. After adding it to my contacts, it autocorrects with the correct capitalization. Maybe most people don't mind, but since I use SMS/email a lot of non-English proper names, the capitalization thing is kind of important to me. FWIW.

 

[Libitina]

I've come up with a small list of words my iphone's keyboard won't spell and its extremely frustrating. by saying won't spell i mean at some point while in the process of spelling the word, a letter in that word cannot be used on the keyboard and if i glide my finger over the keyboard that letter cannot be selected. anybody else have problems with this? it happens on both my 3g and 2g iphone. i have started a thread or two about this in the past in iphone troubleshooting but nobody replied. i would put up a video but i don't have a video recorder


goose
yokie
foos
mejor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNDBoxecN0Y

I have no idea what those last 3 words are?

 

[sh0ckerturb0]

mejor is a spanish word, the others are just a combination of letters that wont let you type a certain letter after their input

 

[cellocello]

Don't be ducking ridiculous.

 

[iFerd]

goose only lets me type good and if i go to goodE it pops up goose in spell check

Sure enough. There is no way to enter "goos" unless you backspace over the d that comes up, no matter what you do.

I know that the keyboard software automatically enlarges the target around letters for predicted words, so it probably isn't a surprise that typing "goo" ends up increasing the target area around the "d." And a four letter word beginning with "goo" is almost surely going to be "good." But it surprises me that there is no way to get to the letter you know you want. (The word could be "goop," but the p is in a completely different area of the keyboard, and you can enter that with ease.)

As long as your word is in your preferred language, the spelling correction seems to be OK, though. If you keep on typing past the "d" and enter an "e" and a space, you end up with what you were wanting in the first place - goose.

 

[sh0ckerturb0]

ya i wonder if apple knows about this? any way to email a tip to them?

 

[iFerd]

ya i wonder if apple knows about this? any way to email a tip to them?

Apple's web form for iPhone feedback is here. You will not hear back, but your suggestion will be heard, or at least many of us assume and hope.

I'd bet there isn't much to be done about this, though. If the field for certain keys enlarges as words are predicted, this will be the occasional consequence. But who knows, maybe there is a way to deal with it better. Won't hurt to send the feedback.

 

[Paratel]

Try typing gracy

mine cannot do it!! LOL

 

[sh0ckerturb0]

Try typing gracy

mine cannot do it!! LOL

yup theres another one. its not a problem of the phone predicting what you are trying to spell and enlarging letter sensitivity level. some letters cannot be selected at all

 

[sh0ckerturb0]

hmmm thats weird the first time it wouldnt let me spell gracy. now it will

 

[Ntombi]

Gracy
Gracy
Gracy


How many of you are actually having this problem? I haven't had a problem typing any of the words listed, or any word at all. I type in both portrait and landscape mode, with no problems in either.

 

[sh0ckerturb0]

check out the video posted. some users are having the same problem

 

[anjinha]

I have this problem too.