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.
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. 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.