18. A handheld electronic device comprising: an input apparatus; an output apparatus; and a processor apparatus; the input apparatus including a number of input members, the number of input members including a plurality of linguistic input members, each linguistic input member of at least a portion of the plurality of linguistic input members having a plurality of linguistic elements assigned thereto; the processor apparatus including a processor and a memory, the memory storing a plurality of word objects each corresponding to one of a plurality of stored words; the output apparatus including a display; the processor being adapted to receive an ambiguous input comprising a number of actuations of a number of the plurality of linguistic input members, at least one of the number of actuations being an actuation of one of the linguistic input members having a plurality of linguistic elements assigned thereto, wherein the actuation of the one of the linguistic input members corresponds to each of the plurality of linguistic elements assigned thereto, and, responsive to the ambiguous input, to display at a first location on the display a plurality of outputs, each corresponding to the ambiguous input, and at least one of the plurality of outputs being an orphan prefix corresponding to the ambiguous input, wherein the orphan prefix consists of k linguistic elements, k being the quantity of the number of actuations, and wherein the orphan prefix is different from the first k characters in each of the plurality of stored words.
18. A handheld electronic device comprising: an input apparatus; an output apparatus; and a processor apparatus; the input apparatus including a number of input members, the number of input members including a plurality of linguistic input members, each linguistic input member of at least a portion of the plurality of linguistic input members having a plurality of linguistic elements assigned thereto; the processor apparatus including a processor and a memory, the memory storing a plurality of word objects each corresponding to one of a plurality of stored words; the output apparatus including a display; the processor being adapted to receive an ambiguous input comprising a number of actuations of a number of the plurality of linguistic input members, at least one of the number of actuations being an actuation of one of the linguistic input members having a plurality of linguistic elements assigned thereto, wherein the actuation of the one of the linguistic input members corresponds to each of the plurality of linguistic elements assigned thereto, and, responsive to the ambiguous input, to display at a first location on the display a plurality of outputs, each corresponding to the ambiguous input, and at least one of the plurality of outputs being an orphan prefix corresponding to the ambiguous input, wherein the orphan prefix consists of k linguistic elements, k being the quantity of the number of actuations, and wherein the orphan prefix is different from the first k characters in each of the plurality of stored words. 19. The handheld electronic device of claim 18 , the processor further being adapted to display at a second location on the display a disambiguation of the ambiguous input, wherein the disambiguation is one of the plurality of outputs displayed at the first location.