ambición

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for ambición is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ãmbiˈsjõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #9,400 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pasión ardiente y desordenada por conseguir riquezas, fama, poder, dignidades o cualquier cosa que halague el amor propio.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for ambición, with forms such as "abmición", "ambbición", and "ambciión". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "audición", "ambicioso", "ambiciosa", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is ambición, spelled A-M-B-I-C-I-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.