How can I fix swipe typing errors on my iPhone 14?

My iPhone 14 with latest updates still won’t accept how I swipe a couple words even when I do it really slowly and carefully. Annoyingly, it’s the two most common words in English. Every time I swipe “and” it produces “and’s”. Swiping “the” produces “Tur” about half the time. This is my second iPhone, had the same issue with my old SE gen2.

Those aren’t even real words. What the **** am I doing wrong? I’ve been using swipe keyboards for years, even back when I was on Android. I’ve tried all the obvious stuff including adding “and’s”-> “and” in the text replacement feature in the keyboard settings.

I’ve seen a couple similar issues reported on the support site and none of the recommendations there have worked. Any tips? I’d use Gboard but it hasn’t been updated for a three years.

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Original Title: I can’t swipe the words “and” and “the”.