Writing for The Fact Site, Dan Lewis estimates that Autocorrect steps in to correct his writing about 50 times a day.

Hachamovitch later went on to head data science at Microsoft.Īutocorrect, among other productivity features, saves time and improves communication. To build more complete dictionaries, Hachamovitch and his team added words that Microsoft employees included in their own personal dictionaries. Still, users could add custom words to their personal dictionaries. Microsoft later expanded autocorrect’s capabilities, enabling it to check against entire dictionaries.Įven dictionaries proved inadequate because terms like “CDs” or “abuzz” weren’t officially recognized. Autocorrect initially checked for common typing errors such as “teh” instead of “the,” against programmed tables of common mistakes.