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autocorrect

autocorrect verb: to make an autocorrection; to correct something automatically.

Verb

autocorrect (third-person singular simple present autocorrects, present participle autocorrecting, simple past and past participle autocorrected)

  1. (transitive) To make an autocorrection; to correct something automatically.
    • In [16], motion-free MR brain (Figure 2a) image was corrupted with motion artifacts and the resulting image (Figure 2b) was autocorrected to fix the motion artifacts.2006 Joseph Reinhardt and Josien Pluim, "Medical imaging 2006", Part 3
    • But the good news is that it autocorrects all of your subcommunications.2011, Jeff Allen, Get Laid Or Die Trying: The Field Reports, page 212

Noun

autocorrect (countable and uncountable, plural autocorrects)

  1. A software feature that attempts to correct presumed errors as soon as they are generated.
    • Anthony Bourdain would have hated that autocorrect turns his name into Boursin, a bland cheese with zero culinary credibility.2022 October 3, Dwitght Garner, “Anthony Bourdain’s New Biography: Light on Subtlety, Heavy on Grit”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 02 Nov 2022

autocorrect meaning in Kannada

autocorrect in Kannada

ಸ್ವಯಂಸರಿ

Examples of autocorrect in a sentence

  • The computer usually defaults to autocorrecting certain spellings and capitalising first words of sentences.2012, Margaret Mallet, The Primary English Encyclopedia, page 26:
  • That is the angriest Lindsey Graham has been about a cellphone since his name got autocorrected to “Linty Grandma”.2016, Tim Carvell [et al.], “Encryption”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 5, John Oliver (actor), Warner Bros....
  • He claimed a misspelling, of "bafoon", had autocorrected on his device to "baboon".2021 November 5, “Romaine Sawyers: Albion fan jailed for racist post loses appeal”, in BBC, archived from the original on 19 Apr 2026:

Forms of autocorrect

Verb
third-person singular presentautocorrects
present participleautocorrecting
past participleautocorrected
pastautocorrected
Noun
pluralautocorrects

Past tense of autocorrect: autocorrected

Origin of autocorrect

From auto- + correct.

Questions about autocorrect

What does autocorrect mean?
Autocorrect means to make an autocorrection; to correct something automatically.
What is autocorrect in Kannada?
Autocorrect in Kannada is ಸ್ವಯಂಸರಿ. See Autocorrect meaning in Kannada.
How do you use autocorrect in a sentence?
The computer usually defaults to autocorrecting certain spellings and capitalising first words of sentences.
What part of speech is autocorrect?
Autocorrect can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of autocorrect?
The past tense of autocorrect is autocorrected.

Words near autocorrect in the dictionary

  1. autocoprophagous
  2. autocoprophagy
  3. autocopulation
  4. autocopyist
  5. autocopyists
  6. autocorrect
  7. autocorrected
  8. autocorrecting
  9. autocorrection
  10. autocorrections
  11. autocorrective

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: autocorrect (page history and authors); AutoCorrect (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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