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Is "ti" a word?

I have a lot of transposition typos, and I often type "ti" instead of "it". My email dictionary lists "ti" as a word, so it is not flagged as a misspelling. So what does "ti" mean? If it's the representation of the 7th note in a standard major scale (do-re-me-fa-so-la-ti-do), then I really don't think that should be in the spell-check dictionary. I would wager that there are far more misspellings of "it" as "ti" than there are deliberate and correct uses of "ti".

Most of the time, spell-check dictionaries strive to be as inclusive as possible, but this is a case where a word in the dictionary probably should be excluded.

And while I'm complaining about spell-check, why can't it be smarter and adjust to what I tend to type? It should keep track of what word I change my misspellings to and offer that as the first suggestion the next time I type the same mistake. Perhaps some spell-checking processes already do this, but I've not used them.

Comments (2)

Hi, Rob! Your definition is correct (in my widget dictionary).

However, Google gives about 30 more, including "the abbreviation for titanium," and, "This is a substitution of a purine for a purine or a pyrimidine for a pyrimidine (like-for-like)."

Anonymous:

Thnak you. I was just curious why my spellcheck said it was a word. This helped a lot

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