Google Docs – Keyboard Shortcut to Correct a Misspelled Word

I was just experiencing a similar problem. I wanted to type 'Verse 2' but translate kept replacing it with 'fresh 2'! I could not find a way to turn if off, though I did make a suggestion to the dictionary that i just wanted my own spelling. From the research I have done there is not a way to just turn off the nonsense. But I found a way: The workaround for me was to choose 'translate document' from the tools menu, then I selected American English, (English English is my default) which created a copy of my doc, which had my original spelling intact.

Of course, your results may likely vary.

In the menu, Tools > Preferences you have Automatic substitution (make sure it's checked). There you can enter words you want to have automatically changed.

This would mainly be used for common misspellings, as it requires you to enter all the corrections yourself. I don't think there's a auto-correct function as on your phone, which automatically chooses the spelling it believes is correct.

If you misspell a word, you can right-click it and choose "Always correct to [correction]", helps speeding up the process somewhat.

As of now it does not seem to work with multiple words, so adding "helo world" doesn't work. It will only recognize single words. So changing "helo" to "hello" will work.

Note that it's case insensitive. The replacement will have the same case as the original word ("Helo" > "Hello", "HELO" > "HELLO", etc)

You can read more at the support article. There you can read about "Spelling suggestions" and "Autocorrection" as different things (you'd want the combination).