diff --git a/web/src/components/Editor/AskPetal.tsx b/web/src/components/Editor/AskPetal.tsx
index fc4f8a6..0eee1b4 100644
--- a/web/src/components/Editor/AskPetal.tsx
+++ b/web/src/components/Editor/AskPetal.tsx
@@ -34,9 +34,12 @@ export function AskPetal({ suggestionId, explanation }: Props) {
     if (el) el.scrollTop = el.scrollHeight
   }, [messages])
 
-  // Focus the input when the panel opens.
+  // Focus the input when the panel opens. preventScroll: the card is already on
+  // screen as an absolutely-positioned overlay, and a default focus() would make
+  // the browser scroll its ancestor to "reveal" the input — jumping the document
+  // to the top.
   useEffect(() => {
-    inputRef.current?.focus()
+    inputRef.current?.focus({ preventScroll: true })
   }, [])
 
   // Fetch the Chinese translation of the explanation to seed the first bubble.
@@ -95,7 +98,7 @@ export function AskPetal({ suggestionId, explanation }: Props) {
       console.error('Ask Petal chat failed:', err)
     } finally {
       setStreaming(false)
-      inputRef.current?.focus()
+      inputRef.current?.focus({ preventScroll: true })
     }
   }
 
diff --git a/web/src/components/Editor/EditorCore.tsx b/web/src/components/Editor/EditorCore.tsx
index cdb4f4a..7f3b510 100644
--- a/web/src/components/Editor/EditorCore.tsx
+++ b/web/src/components/Editor/EditorCore.tsx
@@ -580,9 +580,37 @@ export function EditorCore({
     [onDismiss, closeCard],
   )
 
-  // Click a red-underlined word to open its spelling popover, anchored under the
-  // word. posAtCoords→wordAt resolves the exact PM span (robust to the same
-  // misspelling appearing elsewhere); nspell supplies the corrections.
+  // openMisspellAt resolves the word at a document position and, if the checker
+  // flags it as misspelled, opens the spelling popover anchored under the word.
+  // Returns true if it opened a card. We resolve the word from coordinates and
+  // the checker rather than from the `.petal-misspelling` DOM span: clicking a
+  // word moves the caret into it, which fires the decoration rebuild that
+  // deliberately un-underlines the caret word (see SpellCheck's caret exemption),
+  // so by the time a click/contextmenu handler runs the span is already gone.
+  const openMisspellAt = useCallback(
+    (pos: number): boolean => {
+      if (!editor || !spellChecker) return false
+      const range = wordAt(editor.state.doc, pos)
+      if (!range || spellChecker.correct(range.word)) return false
+      const wrapper = wrapperRef.current
+      if (!wrapper) return false
+      const start = editor.view.coordsAtPos(range.from)
+      const end = editor.view.coordsAtPos(range.to)
+      const wrapRect = wrapper.getBoundingClientRect()
+      const cardWidth = 240
+      const left = Math.max(0, Math.min(start.left - wrapRect.left, wrapper.clientWidth - cardWidth))
+      const top = end.bottom - wrapRect.top + 6
+      // Opening a spelling popover supersedes any AI-suggestion or lookup card.
+      closeCard()
+      setWordInfo(null)
+      setMisspell({ ...range, suggestions: spellChecker.suggest(range.word), top, left })
+      return true
+    },
+    [editor, spellChecker, closeCard],
+  )
+
+  // Click a misspelled word to open its spelling popover, anchored under the
+  // word; nspell supplies the corrections.
   //
   // Tapping an AI-suggestion highlight also opens its card here — on touch there's
   // no hover, so the tap is the only way in (mouse users still get hover).
@@ -603,26 +631,16 @@ export function EditorCore({
         }
         return
       }
-      if (!editor || !spellChecker) return
-      const target = (e.target as HTMLElement).closest('.petal-misspelling') as HTMLElement | null
-      if (!target) return
-      const wrapper = wrapperRef.current
-      if (!wrapper) return
+      if (!editor) return
+      // Only act on clicks in the editor text itself — the floating cards/popovers
+      // are children of this same wrapper, and a click on one shouldn't resolve a
+      // (hidden) word behind it.
+      if (!(e.target as HTMLElement).closest('.petal-prose')) return
       const coords = editor.view.posAtCoords({ left: e.clientX, top: e.clientY })
       if (!coords) return
-      const range = wordAt(editor.state.doc, coords.pos)
-      if (!range) return
-      const elRect = target.getBoundingClientRect()
-      const wrapRect = wrapper.getBoundingClientRect()
-      const cardWidth = 240
-      const left = Math.max(0, Math.min(elRect.left - wrapRect.left, wrapper.clientWidth - cardWidth))
-      const top = elRect.bottom - wrapRect.top + 6
-      // Opening a spelling popover supersedes any AI-suggestion hover card.
-      closeCard()
-      setWordInfo(null)
-      setMisspell({ ...range, suggestions: spellChecker.suggest(range.word), top, left })
+      openMisspellAt(coords.pos)
     },
-    [editor, spellChecker, closeCard, openCardFor, railEnabled],
+    [editor, openMisspellAt, openCardFor, railEnabled],
   )
 
   const replaceMisspelling = useCallback(
@@ -757,8 +775,10 @@ export function EditorCore({
       .catch((err) => console.error('vocab save failed', err))
   }, [wordInfo, exampleAt, docId])
 
-  // Right-click a word to look it up. Right-clicking off any word falls through
-  // to the native menu (so copy/paste-by-menu still works — see the Selection fix).
+  // Right-click a misspelled word for spelling corrections (the familiar "did you
+  // mean" gesture); right-click any other word to look it up. Right-clicking off
+  // any word falls through to the native menu (so copy/paste-by-menu still works
+  // — see the Selection fix).
   const handleContextMenu = useCallback(
     (e: React.MouseEvent) => {
       if (!editor) return
@@ -766,9 +786,11 @@ export function EditorCore({
       if (!coords) return
       if (!wordAt(editor.state.doc, coords.pos)) return
       e.preventDefault()
+      // A misspelled word offers corrections first; otherwise look it up.
+      if (openMisspellAt(coords.pos)) return
       openWordLookup(coords.pos)
     },
-    [editor, openWordLookup],
+    [editor, openMisspellAt, openWordLookup],
   )
 
   // Touch has no hover or right-click, so a long-press (~500ms without moving)