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How (and when) to clear your Personal Dictionary on Windows 11

Have you ever noticed that Windows 11 offers suggestions for words and phrases while you’re typing?

Those suggestions are drawn from your Personal Dictionary, a database containing words and phrases that Windows has saved on your behalf while you were typing things in the past.

The Personal Dictionary can a be real timesaver if you tend to make lots of typos and misspellings (like me), but what if your Personal Dictionary contains a lot of typos and misspellings that it has collected over time, thinking they were actually correct?

Yep, Windows 11 can, and often does offer the typos and misspellings it has stored in your Personal Dictionary as potential fixes for new mistakes that you make. And after a while it can get a bit frustrating.

That’s why every now and then it helps to clear everything out of your Personal Dictionary and force it to start over fresh. Here’s how:

1 – Right-click the Start button, then select Settings from the menu.

2 – In the left-hand pane, click Privacy & security.

3 – In the right-hand pane, click Inking & typing personalization.

4 – Click Personal Dictionary.

5 – Click the Clear your personal dictionary button.

6 – (Optional) If you don’t like receiving recommendations from your Personal Dictionary in the first place, you can always simply disable it by toggling the “Personal inking and typing dictionary” setting to Off.

That’s all there is to it. If you simply cleared your Personal Dictionary, Windows 11 will now start compiling a new list of words and phrases from the things you type.

If you disabled it completely you will no longer receive any suggestions for fixing your typos and misspellings (which could actually be a good thing, depending on your personal preferences).

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