ambitions
\ɑ̃.bi.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“ambitions” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,066. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,066
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de ambition.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ambitions · ambitions · French
ambitions · rank #8,066 · 13 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,066
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH ajoutent
Nearest frequency peer: ajoutent (-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 « ambitions »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- aborde
aborde
91,938 corpus weight
- aimée
aimée
91,937 corpus weight
- ajoutent
ajoutent
91,936 corpus weight
- ambitions
ambitions
91,935 corpus weight
- apportent
apportent
91,934 corpus weight
- Aquitaine
Aquitaine
91,933 corpus weight
What this shows « ambitions » 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 | ambitions |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.bi.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #8,066 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ambitions »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around ambitions (IPA \ɑ̃.bi.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,066 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de ambition.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for ambitions, with forms such as "abmitions", "ambbitions", and "ambiitons". 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, "auditions", "ambition", "additions", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ambitions, spelled A-M-B-I-T-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de ambition.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ambitions appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’était le rechampissage du mot libéralisme, un nouveau mot d’ordre pour des ambitions nouvelles.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abmitions
- ambbitions
- ambiitons
- ambitinos
- ambitionns
- ambitionss
- ambitiosn
- ambitoins
- ambittions
- ambtiions
- amibtions
- ammbitions
- mabitions
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ambitions - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).