13. The handheld electronic device of claim 12 wherein the plurality of objects further include a plurality of frequency objects each having a frequency value, at least some of the word objects each being associated with an associated frequency object, and wherein the operations further comprise outputting the first character permutations in descending order of frequency value.
15. The handheld electronic device of claim 13 wherein the ambiguous input comprises a number of initial actuations and a current actuation, and wherein the operations further comprise: responsive to the number of initial actuations, identifying at least one word object that corresponds with a particular character permutation of the number of initial actuations; and outputting as one of the second character permutations the particular character permutation plus a character assigned to the input member of the current actuation.