ambition
\ɑ̃.bi.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“ambition” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,398. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,398
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Recherche d’honneurs, de gloire, d’élévation sociale, de distinction.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ambition · ambition · French
ambition · rank #4,398 · 11 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,398
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH anges
Nearest frequency peer: anges (+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 « ambition »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- éventuellem…
éventuellement
95,607 corpus weight
- abandon
abandon
95,606 corpus weight
- abonnés
abonnés
95,605 corpus weight
- ambition
ambition
95,603 corpus weight
- anges
anges
95,602 corpus weight
- appuie
appuie
95,601 corpus weight
What this shows « ambition » 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 | ambition |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.bi.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #4,398 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ambition »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around ambition (IPA \ɑ̃.bi.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,398 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for ambition, with forms such as "abmition", "ambbition", and "ambiiton". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "audition", "ambitions", "ambitionne", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is ambition, spelled A-M-B-I-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Recherche d’honneurs, de gloire, d’élévation sociale, de distinction.
- 2Motivation pour améliorer une situation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ambition appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De nos jours, les troupes nombreuses et les armées puissantes […] contribuent à la sûreté des États: elles contiennent l'ambition des princes voisins; ce sont des épées nues qui tiennent celles des autres au fourreau.
Dans Thomas l’imposteur, il avait combiné à une apparence de psychologie « rudimentaire » des aperçus ou constats très fins et pénétrants, dépatinant les sentiments les plus convenus (amour, plaisir, ambition), les sortant du lieu commun.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abmition
- ambbition
- ambiiton
- ambitino
- ambitionn
- ambitoin
- ambittion
- ambtiion
- amibtion
- ammbition
- mabition
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ambition - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).