1. A method for using prior corrections of a user to improve recognition operations comprising the steps of: receiving a handwritten input from a user; performing a recognition operation to determine a top recognized word; and if an analysis of a history of prior corrections by the user reveals that the user has corrected the top recognized word to a particular word a certain number of times, then swapping the top recognized word to the particular word and displaying the particular word on a display device as a recognition result.