I don't know about you, but a large part of my daily contact with my mobile or tablet goes through using the keyboard to write, whether conversations, work, notes, etc. In this sense, it is important to feel comfortable and find an input method with which we can work fluently, without having to constantly stop to correct. To do this, a simple trick allows us to add to the dictionary the "strange" terms that we are going to use assiduously.
One of the keys, not only to productivity, but also to the most everyday use, lies in the ease with which we can create content on our phones and tablets. The replacement of the physical keyboard of the PC (which allows that called touch typing) by virtual keyboards was a small step back in terms of efficiency although, little by little, this second system is providing interesting devices to balance things, such as the prediction of words, the way Swype or even the sophistication of voice dictation.
Even so, we are generally limited by a series of words that language packs contain and that are far from accounting for all the registers of everyday speech. In this way, not only is the jargon or even the words that we invent and use within a group of friends, but also technical terms important to our work. Although this can be fixed.
Adding words to packages which languages
To add a word a to the dictionary and make it become part of a specific language, we just need to go to Settings > Language and text input > Personal dictionary.
In that section, we will specifically choose one or all languages. We enter and we will find a screen in which we can go adding the terms we need, as you can see in this example:
After that, we press Back and we check that the dictionary has incorporated it.
What happens if we use a third-party keyboard?
The answer depends, to a large extent, on the application we have chosen. In my case, for example, I have a habit of running with Swiftkey, which makes things much easier. This keyboard allows you to have a profile and recognizes a word (and the synchronize with all our Android devices) when we validate it.
In the example above, you can see that the term "mocking" is no longer underlined in red, this is why the dictionary. However, after writing it once, Swiftkey's own predictive system will already offer it to us as an option to autocomplete, so that he will not insist on correcting us with a similar word in case we need to write this one in particular.