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Autocorrect and suggestions

Everything on this page runs on your phone, and nothing you type is sent anywhere.

Type roughly​

You don't have to hit each key exactly. Flikzi reads where each tap landed and weighs the keys around it. It allows for a tap on the key next door, a missed letter, an extra tap and two letters swapped. It also looks at the two words before, and at the words you use.

What you see while you type​

  • Your letters appear in the text exactly as you typed them. Nothing changes under your thumbs while you type a word.
  • The strip above the keys leads with the word that space will use. It is the highlighted one.
  • When Flikzi is sure which word you meant, that word leads and your own letters come second. Type hwllo and the strip leads with hello, then hwllo.
  • When it isn't sure, your letters lead, and space keeps them as they are.
  • After those come other words it could be, and longer words that finish what you started.

Space puts the word in​

The first word in the strip goes into the text when you finish the word with a space, with a full stop, comma, question mark or other sentence punctuation, or with Enter.

A mark that joins words keeps your letters as typed: @, a slash or a hyphen.

To use another word from the strip, tap it. It goes in with a space after it.

Accents and apostrophes come by themselves​

Type dont and you get don't. Type i and you get I. In languages with accents, type the plain letters and the word comes with its accents: deja becomes déjà in French, and fur becomes für in German.

A missed space​

Miss the space between two words and Flikzi puts it back. Type thequick and space gives you the quick. The strip shows the quick first, so you see it coming.

It does this only when your letters are no word by themselves and the two words are clearly what you meant. Together, nowhere and today are words, so they are never split. In languages other than English, Flikzi puts back only two words that are often written one after the other, because long words there can look like two short ones.

The word before can change​

Sometimes the next word shows what the last one was. Type well be and, as you finish be, well becomes we'll. Its going becomes it's going. In Spanish, Vietnamese and other languages with accents, this is how a short word gets the right accent or tone: cam on becomes cảm ơn.

Only the spelling changes: the same letters with another apostrophe, accent or tone, never a different word. And only a word Flikzi chose on space can change. A word you picked from the strip, or spelled with a flick or a held letter, stays.

Undo a correction​

Swipe left on the space bar straight after the word. Your own letters come back, and Flikzi does not correct them again. That goes for a space Flikzi put back too.

Letters the dictionary doesn't know, such as a name, become a word of yours once you stand by them. That happens when you bring them back after a correction and leave them, when you pick them from the strip, or when you leave them as typed twice. Flikzi does not correct a word of yours again.

Capitals you flick stay​

A capital you typed with a flick up is kept in every word Flikzi offers. Flick T up, then type eh by mistake for he, and space still gives The.

Suggestions​

  • While you type a word, the strip shows those words, and after the first two an emoji for the word, such as 🍕 for pizza.
  • After a space, the strip shows emoji for the word you finished, then likely next words. Tap one to type it.
  • When a field opens, the strip shows likely first words.

What Flikzi learns​

Flikzi learns from what you type, on your phone only, and never uploads it:

  • Your words. Words and names you use come first next time. A word the dictionary doesn't have becomes yours as described under Undo a correction.
  • Which word follows which. Type makan already once, and next time already is among the words offered after makan.
  • Where your thumbs land. If you tend to hit a key a little to one side, Flikzi learns that for each key and allows for it. Only numbers for each key are stored. No text is kept with them.
  • Your email addresses. Whole addresses you type are offered again from their first letters. Web addresses and email
  • Mistakes don't stick. Delete a word straight after typing it (swipe left on the space bar) and Flikzi forgets that it learned it.

Nothing is learned in password fields, or where the app asks keyboards not to learn, such as Chrome's incognito tabs. In email fields ordinary words are not learned, only whole addresses.

To clear everything Flikzi learned, open Flikzi, Typing, Forget learned words. That clears your words, which word follows which, your email addresses and where your thumbs land, in every language.

Singlish​

Turn on Singlish words (Flikzi, Typing) and Flikzi knows lah, leh, lor, shiok, makan, paiseh, bojio, walao and about 230 more Singlish and Malaysian English words, among the English ones. It also knows how they're used: can is followed by lah, nasi by lemak. It's on from the start when your phone is set to Singapore or Malaysia.

Web addresses and email​

In web address and email fields nothing is corrected: an address is spelled the way you type it. The strip still offers words, and the pieces of an address such as .com and @gmail.com. Web addresses and email

Passwords​

Password fields are typed letter by letter. Autocorrect, suggestions, learning and the mic are all off there, and each tap types its letter. Flick a letter up for its capital, and down for its digit or mark.

Which languages​

Autocorrect and suggestions work in the 19 languages typed by their words, from English to Russian and Ukrainian. English is the strongest. In the others the word lists miss more of the words people write, so Flikzi more often meets a word it doesn't know; if it changes one, swipe left on the space bar and the word is yours from then on. Chinese, Japanese and Korean have their own ways of typing: see Your languages.

Turn it off​

Open Flikzi, Typing:

  • Autocorrect: off, space keeps your letters as you typed them. The strip still shows suggestions, and you can tap one.
  • Suggestions: the words in the strip above the keys. With it off, autocorrect still fixes words on space.
  • Emoji suggestions: emoji for the word you type, like pizza → 🍕. Off when Suggestions is off.