Help with apple dictionary, plz

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Level 1

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Help with apple dictionary, plz

iPhone 13 Pro

v 26.5.2

Hello everyone! I am/was a nurse. I am now disabled and living with chronic pain. So I type the names of medications a lot in emails and txt msgs. For those who don’t know generic medication is always started with a lowercase letter unless it is the first word in a sentence. Brand nam drugs are ALWAYS started with a capital letter. Is there a way to correct the spellings of the most common medications I spell or is there a way to change the dictionary to a more medical version??

thanks for any guidance you can give!

DanYelle009

iPhone 13 Pro, iOS 26

Posted on Jul 22, 2026 1:18 PM

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brbo

Level 8

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Jul 26, 2026 12:03 AM in response to danYelle009

Hi danYelle009.

welcome to this Apple (user-to-user) Community!

Re: "Help with apple dictionary, plz ..."

" ... Is there a way to correct the spellings of the most common medications I spell or is there a way to change the dictionary to a more medical version??"

Wondering whether it may be a good idea to carefully add all those medical names correctly to use with text replacements. If you wish: you can then invent some simple text you type, to get the correctly spelled medical word(s) every time.

See how to: Save keystrokes with text replacements on iPhone - Apple Support

Here's another community user's interesting take on text replacements:

How to add new words to the dictionary. - Apple Community

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