Autocorrect runs alongside Windows text prediction and quietly fixes common typing errors as you write — without slowing you down or interrupting your flow. It is the system-wide companion to Windows 11 Prediction: the same Readable toolbar menu controls both. A particularly useful side-effect is that autocorrect then becomes available in any Windows application — including Notepad, WordPad, chat apps, and other lightweight editors that don't have a built-in autocorrect of their own.

Readable also speaks the suggested word as it's applied — useful in learning situations where hearing the correct spelling reinforces it.

What autocorrect fixes

Autocorrect uses the underlying Windows text-prediction rules. Common fixes include:

  • Reversed letters — "teh" → "the", "adn" → "and"
  • Missing apostrophes — "cant" → "can't", "dont" → "don't"
  • Capitalisation at the start of a sentence
  • Days and months — Monday, January, etc.
  • Common spelling errors covered by Windows' built-in corrections

Turning Autocorrect on

Click the word-prediction button on the Readable toolbar — the same one used for Show Predictions. The dropdown menu has an AutoCorrect toggle. Click it to switch autocorrect on or off.

The Readable toolbar's word-prediction dropdown menu, showing two options: Show Predictions and AutoCorrect.
AutoCorrect is the second item on the word-prediction toolbar dropdown.

The change takes effect immediately. Try typing a common misspelling — autocorrect will replace it as you finish the word:

A Notepad window with the typed text 'sevnty' showing an autocorrect suggestion 'seventy' just below the typed word, ready to be applied.
Autocorrect in action — typing "sevnty" surfaces "seventy" as the autocorrection.

Hearing the suggested word

Readable's contribution on top of standard Windows autocorrect: hold Ctrl and move the mouse over a suggested autocorrection to hear it spoken aloud before it's applied. Helpful in learning contexts, and for users who recognise words by sound more readily than by sight.

Where Autocorrect works

Because it is built on the Windows text-prediction system, autocorrect works in any Windows application that accepts text input from a physical keyboard — Microsoft Word, Outlook, Chrome, Edge, Notepad, WordPad, chat apps and so on. Behaviour is consistent across applications.

Undoing an autocorrect

If autocorrect makes a change you didn't want, press Ctrl+Z immediately to undo. The corrected text reverts to what you originally typed.