ambitieux
\ɑ̃.bi.sjø\
The verdict
“ambitieux” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,270. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,270
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a de l’ambition.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ambitieux · ambitieux · French
ambitieux · rank #7,270 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #7,270
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH alternatives
Nearest frequency peer: alternatives (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « ambitieux »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- achevé
achevé
92,734 corpus weight
- adolescence
adolescence
92,733 corpus weight
- alternatives
alternatives
92,732 corpus weight
- ambitieux
ambitieux
92,731 corpus weight
- amours
amours
92,730 corpus weight
- Annie
Annie
92,729 corpus weight
What this shows « ambitieux » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ambitieux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.bi.sjø\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #7,270 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ambitieux »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around ambitieux (IPA \ɑ̃.bi.sjø\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #7,270 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for ambitieux, with forms such as "abmitieux", "ambbitieux", and "ambiiteux". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "ambitieuse", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ambitieux, spelled A-M-B-I-T-I-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Qui a de l’ambition.
- 2Qui renferme ou marque de l’ambition.
- 3Qualifie des formes de discours recherchées ou affectées.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ambitieux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les Spartiates étaient petits en nombre, grands de cœur, ambitieux et violents ; de fausses lois n'en aurait tiré que de pâles coquins ; Lycurgue en fit d'héroïques brigands.
Un personnage déclare que, éclairé par sa longue expérience, il préférerait redevenir ambitieux plutôt quʼamoureux.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abmitieux
- ambbitieux
- ambiiteux
- ambiteiux
- ambitieuxx
- ambitiexu
- ambitiuex
- ambittieux
- ambtiieux
- amibtieux
- ammbitieux
- mabitieux
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ambitieux - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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