8. An electronic device comprising: an input apparatus comprising a plurality of input members having a number of characters assigned thereto; a processor apparatus comprising a processor and a memory having stored therein a plurality of words and a plurality of word frames; each word frame having associated therewith at least a first word comprising a plurality of characters that include a sequential plurality of characters that are all assigned to a particular input member; each word frame being representative of the at least first word and comprising, in place of the sequential plurality of characters of the at least first word, a contracted portion that is representative of any nonzero quantity of the characters assigned to the particular input member; the memory further having stored therein a number of routines which, when executed on the processor, cause the electronic device to perform operations comprising: detecting as an input a plurality of input member selections; identifying in the memory one or more words that correspond with the input for at least partial inclusion in an output set; identifying in the memory a particular word frame that corresponds with the input; adding to the output set at least a portion of at least a first word associated with the particular word frame; and outputting at least a portion of the output set.
8. An electronic device comprising: an input apparatus comprising a plurality of input members having a number of characters assigned thereto; a processor apparatus comprising a processor and a memory having stored therein a plurality of words and a plurality of word frames; each word frame having associated therewith at least a first word comprising a plurality of characters that include a sequential plurality of characters that are all assigned to a particular input member; each word frame being representative of the at least first word and comprising, in place of the sequential plurality of characters of the at least first word, a contracted portion that is representative of any nonzero quantity of the characters assigned to the particular input member; the memory further having stored therein a number of routines which, when executed on the processor, cause the electronic device to perform operations comprising: detecting as an input a plurality of input member selections; identifying in the memory one or more words that correspond with the input for at least partial inclusion in an output set; identifying in the memory a particular word frame that corresponds with the input; adding to the output set at least a portion of at least a first word associated with the particular word frame; and outputting at least a portion of the output set. 10. The electronic device of claim 8 , wherein at least some of the plurality of the word frames further comprise a root portion preceding the contracted portion, the root portion comprising the characters of the at least first word associated with the word frame that precede the sequential plurality of characters, and wherein the operations further comprise as at least a portion of the identifying of the particular word frame, making a determination that a portion of the input that precedes any quantity of sequential selections of the particular input member corresponds with a root portion of the particular word frame except for at most one discrepancy therebetween.