word completion

Finishing your sentence

Word completion is the automatic suggestion or filling-in of words as you type, based on the first few letters entered.

The feature appears in search engines, phone keyboards, and text editors: My phone's word completion keeps suggesting the wrong thing.

Also called autocomplete or predictive text.

Related

predict · type · suggest · finish · text · keyboard · blank · guess · prompt · input · cursor · search · search bar · dropdown · hint · partial · letters · predictive

Opposites
automation level

word completionmanual typing

Text entry by keystroke

manual input

input process

word completionhandwriting

Manual letter formation

dictation · copy-paste

Family

word, words, worded, wording, wordless, complete, completion, completions, completed

Familiarity
Top 500,000
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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G