A method for reconciling typographical errors, includes: receiving an electronic text message from a pervasive device with limited input keypads on a receiving device configured with a messaging application; determining an input protocol of the pervasive device; examining the electronic text message for words that are not in the messaging application's dictionary; identifying words that are not in the messaging application's dictionary; mapping each of the identified words to a set of keystrokes used to produce each of the identified words based on a series of input protocols that the receiving device has stored in a memory; utilizing each set of keystrokes from each of the input protocols in an algorithm to compute each permutation of the keystrokes; checking the computed permutations against the messaging application's dictionary to determine viable matches of the computed permutations; and presenting the viable matches to a user of the receiving device.