Why does my texting app generate new learned words?

Stg-Flame

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I have a Galaxy S9+ and I'm using the default texting app. This wasn't an issue with my first smart phone (Galaxy S3) and it started happening with my last phone (Galaxy S5). I know the phone will learn words as I type them in and if I'm using the Swipe feature, it will always give me a list of words it thinks I might have meant if the one generated wasn't the correct one, but my phone is constantly bringing up random gibberish that I've never typed before in my life. Not only that, but my phone is slowly reverting names back to what my S5 did. For instance, when I swipe or type 'Jeremy', it auto-replaces it with Jhermaine (and yes that's exactly how my phone spells it). I've even went in and deleted that name multiple times, but it seems my phone refuses to unlearn it. Then there's the three letter gibberish that spawns all the time like: wss, wbb, ttn, dpl, nns, and nne that constantly pop up when I try to type other three letter words and no matter how many times I delete these from the phone (or rather, unlearn them), they come back.

I've spoken with Samsung about this issue and they assure me the phone only learns words that I have typed and since I keep my phone in my pocket locked and with the screen facing away from my leg, it's impossible that I accidentally opened the text and started hitting random letters by accident. I get the feeling like the phone automatically adds popular trend words in the phone since I tried to text 'sad' and it auto-corrected to 'dabbing' and a few years ago every time I would type 'twice' it would auto-correct to 'twerk'.

Has anyone else encountered this issue or is it just my phone?
 

WelshBloke

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Is there someone else using a phone sighned in on the same Samsung account? Does that keyboard app sync its learnt vocab to the cloud?
 

Stg-Flame

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It does sync to the cloud and I'm the only one using this phone and account. Even though Google constantly asks me to set up a Google account and a Samsung account, I refuse to add an account to my phone simply for the fact if I lost it somewhere or it was stolen, I don't want other people using my accounts for anything. I also don't use any social media sites and only have a few apps on my phone, so I'm unsure where this constant stream of new words and gibberish is coming from.
 

Stg-Flame

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It's set by default, but I don't send e-mails from my phone. My phone is strictly used for phone calls, texting, music, and playing SNES games.