ambição
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,795
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
ambição is aPortuguesenoun. It means: desejo forte de fortuna, de glória, de honrarias, de poder ou de outra coisa qualquer, dependendo do contexto Pronounced /ɐ̃.bi.ˈsɐ̃w̃/. It ranks #9,795 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with âmbito and audição.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ambição |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɐ̃.bi.ˈsɐ̃w̃/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #9,795 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for ambição is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɐ̃.bi.ˈsɐ̃w̃/. Corpus data places it at rank #9,795 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for ambição, with forms such as "abmição", "ambbição", and "ambiãço". 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, "âmbito", "audição", "ambíguo", 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 Portuguese form is ambição, spelled A-M-B-I-Ç-Ã-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1desejo forte de fortuna, de glória, de honrarias, de poder ou de outra coisa qualquer, dependendo do contexto
- 2expectativa em relação ao futuro
- 3cobiça, cupidez, aspiração, determinação
- 4vontade, talante
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abmição,ambbição,ambiãço,ambiçoã,ambçião,amibção,ammbição,mabição
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ambição
Misspelling Variants of "ambição"
Frequency rank: #9,795 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
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