---
title: customWords
framework: vision
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: vision/recognizetextrequest/customwords
---

# customWords

An array of strings to supplement the recognized languages at the word-recognition stage.

## Declaration

```swift
var customWords: [String]
```

## Discussion

Discussion Custom words take precedence over the standard lexicon. The request ignores this value if usesLanguageCorrection is false.

## See Also

### Configuring a request

- [automaticallyDetectsLanguage](vision/recognizetextrequest/automaticallydetectslanguage.md)
- [usesLanguageCorrection](vision/recognizetextrequest/useslanguagecorrection.md)
- [supportedRecognitionLanguages](vision/recognizetextrequest/supportedrecognitionlanguages.md)
- [minimumTextHeightFraction](vision/recognizetextrequest/minimumtextheightfraction.md)
- [recognitionLanguages](vision/recognizetextrequest/recognitionlanguages.md)
- [recognitionLevel](vision/recognizetextrequest/recognitionlevel-swift.property.md)
- [RecognizeTextRequest.RecognitionLevel](vision/recognizetextrequest/recognitionlevel-swift.enum.md)