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by scotu 2934 days ago
for many of the examples you gave, I think that could be solved through an autocomplete style correction that sure, it's not perfect, but it seems good enough for smartphone users: xample is not a word, so it's probably a typo, so it's probably example...

you could also keep multiple interpretation of a word pending (and a text search for all of them would take you there) and eventually ask the user to disambiguate if the user wants to. I assume this would be an acceptable solution for non dictionary words too...