Gesture typing in messaging applications with contextual data

A method comprising:

• receiving a current gesture in an application, wherein the gesture is related to trajectory of a hand movement on a displayed digital keyboard related to the application;
• determining that all words suggested in a gesture previous to the current gesture were rejected;
• and
• in response to the determination, determining whether a similarity index is above a threshold;
• generating a blended list of words for the current gesture, wherein the blended list of words is a blend of a high-priority list of words (HPL) determined based on a context, and a lexicon associated with an application, wherein the generated blended list of words does not include the words rejected in the gesture previous to the current gesture if the similarity index is above the threshold;
• and
• presenting a highest rank word or words from the blended list of words.

A system comprising:

• communications circuitry configured to access a displayed digital keyboard of an application;
• and
• control circuitry configured to:
• generate a blended list of words, wherein the blended list of words is a blend of a high-priority list of words (HPL) determined based on a context, and a lexicon;
• and
• in response to a receiving a gesture in an application, wherein the gesture corresponds to a navigation of a path on the displayed digital keyboard of the application:
• suggest a word from the blended list of words that corresponds to the received gesture;
• and displaying the suggested word on a display of the electronic device.