18. The handheld electronic device of claim 17 wherein the plurality of objects further include a plurality of n-grams, at least some of the n-grams each being associated with an associated frequency object, and wherein the operations further comprise outputting the another default output at a higher priority than the first variant output on the basis of a correspondence between a number of terminal characters of the another default output and an n-gram that is associated with a frequency object having a frequency value which is greater than the frequency value of another frequency object with which another n-gram is associated, a number of terminal characters of the first variant output corresponding with another n-gram.
17. The handheld electronic device of claim 16 wherein the operations further comprise outputting as a first variant output another artificial variant comprising the particular first character permutation plus another character assigned to the input member of the another actuation.