Has anyone ever worked with the pspell_suggest function and been able to get a more meaningful suggestion out of it. I'm trying to use it to aid my fulltext search and I can't get a meaningful suggestion out of it. The big term that I'm trying to solve is when someone types in econ, it suggesting economics. thanks in advance.

econ is short for economics in my view. You have to keep in mind this is main a spell checker and the suggestion function is more of an addon. I suggest you look into a more dedicated synonymys tool as this will lead greater results.

Can't you manually add results for econ?