How do I edit my saved words dictionary?

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Level 1

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How do I edit my saved words dictionary?

some how and for some reason tgey had been added to my iphone dictionary when i mess up typing they. how do I edit the words saved in the dictionary so it stops accepting tgey as a spelled correctly word?

24" 3.06 GHz iMac - 13" White MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.3), 4GB RAM 500GB HD - 32gig iPhone 3GS

Posted on May 13, 2010 11:02 PM

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Answer 1

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Jim VanLeeuwen

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May 13, 2010 11:19 PM in response to John Novi

There is the slow way.

"To reject the suggested word, finish typing the word as you want it, then tap the “x” to dismiss the suggestion before typing anything else. Each time you reject a suggestion for the same word, iPhone becomes more likely to accept your word."

And the fast way.

Reset the keyboard dictionary: Choose Settings > General > Reset and tap Reset Keyboard Dictionary. Resetting the keyboard dictionary erases all words you’ve added, and you can start over with a clean slate.

BTW, the other instruction is: "To use the suggested word, type a space, punctuation mark, or return character."

There is no way to manually edit one word in the dictionary.

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Answer 2

Jul 23, 2010 5:26 PM in response to Dave Creek

And here's another application: Dictionary Cleaner at http://www.twoamsoftware.com/?q=dc/about. It's old but appears to work.

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Answer 3

Jul 23, 2010 5:16 PM in response to Jim VanLeeuwen

I just stumbled across an application that appears to do the job: Dictionary Editor by Pariahware at http://pariahware.com/dictionaryeditor.php. It's freeware. It has no documentation as far as I can see, but then it probably doesn't need any.

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