ambicionar
/ɐ̃.bi.sju.ˈnaɾ/
The verdict
“ambicionar” is uncommon Portuguese (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - desejar com veemência
Corpus desk
Index PT-ambicionar · ambicionar · Portuguese
ambicionar · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ambicionar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ɐ̃.bi.sju.ˈnaɾ/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “ambicionar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
ambicionar is uncommon Portuguese outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed /ɐ̃.bi.sju.ˈnaɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
ambicionar doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is ambicionar, spelled A-M-B-I-C-I-O-N-A-R.
Definition
- 1desejar com veemência
- 2cobiçar
- 3apetecer
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.