Is there any way to train Android to stop auto correcting a specific word?

With my iphone, if you persisted in xxing out the substitution and typing what YOU wanted, it had the ability to learn.

For instance, I tend to use the word “thus” from time to time. It used to correct it to “this” (which makes the sentence rather nonsensical) But when I persisted in backspacing and putting in the “U” once or twice, it got the point. So, when I typed thus, it stayed as thus.

Apparently Android is significantly stupider because even correcting it 4 or 5 times has no effect.

On a recent post , I kept trying to use the word, “jerk” which it kept correcting to “jerl” Is that even a word?

Anyhow, it was the last word in the sentence and putting in the period initiated the switch from K to L. Even tho I retyped it multiple times, I finally had to resort to leaving it without punctuation at all and going to the next paragraph. There was just no way that it was going to allow that K to remain. Jerk is a perfectly acceptable word in the English language. I’ve never heard of jerl. And I just noticed that it seems to be fine with jerk anywhere else in a sentence except last. Stupid.

Even tho I can’t remember which other specific words it did this to, it has happened numerous times and it’s just so frustrating.

I mean, you’d think that if the writer kept repeating the spelling which they wished, it would be obvious that it was intentional and not a typo.

There must be a way to code for that action because iPhone routinely stopped trying to override my intent which became obvious after several repeats.

But is there some type of white list (perhaps not exactly the proper term) Where you can enter words which you want it to leave alone and allow to be spelled the way you want to do so that it “learns”

It has a tendency to do this with some abbreviations also I just remembered.