Hack to teach Siri correct spelling of ANY word it keeps getting wrong

I play chess and for five years Siri has spelled "PAWNS" as "PONDS". I have a fairly normal US accent, Midwest. Here's the hack. Fix it the same way you fix Siri, to correctly spell someone's last name.

  1. Create a contact card with the last name "pawns"
  2. Go to edit -> add field -> add Phonetic Last Name. Type in the word "ponds".
  3. Siri immediately started spelling it "pawns". Problem solved. Only issue is now I have a strange entry in my contacts, but I can live with that.



MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 15.6

Posted on Aug 11, 2025 8:54 PM

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Hack to teach Siri correct spelling of ANY word it keeps getting wrong

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