Adding abbreviations to a word list can be very useful to make it easier to type (e.g. names, to correct typing errors, and to type a complete sentence very swiftly). This is also known as abbreviation expansion.

Every time the abbreviation is typed in a text while that word list is selected, Skippy will place the abbreviation expansion (along with other predictions) in the prediction list. Skippy can also automatically replace the abbreviation in the text by its expansion (‘js’ could automatically be replaced with ‘John Smith’ in the text or ‘ifgt’ with ‘I feel good today’

Adding abbreviations and their expansions to a word list can also be very helpful to automatically correct frequent spelling mistakes. Add, for instance, ‘teh’ to a word list as an abbreviation, with ‘the’ as its expansion. Whenever ’teh’ is typed in a text, Skippy will automatically correct this mistake and replace ‘teh’ by ‘the’.