promise

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The verdict

“promise” is uncommon German (frequency #52,340 among 3,409 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#52,340
frequency rank, German
3,409
“P” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Versprechen, Versprechung, Zusage, Zusicherung

Corpus desk

Index DE-promise · promise · German

promise · rank #52,340 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #52,340
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,409
  • PHOTO-FINISH profitiere

Nearest frequency peer: profitiere (-1 rank slots)

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.

Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „promise“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „promise“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for promise
PropertyValue
Headwordpromise
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[…]
Letters7
Frequency rank#52,340
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „promise“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.promisefällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Ticks laufen logarithmisch; jeder ist rund zehnmal seltener. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „profitiere“ (#52,339), „Prüm“ (#52,341), „pst“ (#52,342). Unter 3,409 „P“-Lemmata liegt „promise“ bei #52,340. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

promise is uncommon German at frequency #52,340 among 3,409 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Versprechen, Versprechung, Zusage, Zusicherung".

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for promise, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is promise, spelled P-R-O-M-I-S-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Versprechen, Versprechung, Zusage, Zusicherung

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how promise appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. "A few days after the assault, FBI agent Jeff Jamar said the FBI discounted Koresh's surrender promise because they had "absolute certain intelligence" that it was a sham."

Synonyms

pledge

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "promise"?
"promise" is spelled P-R-O-M-I-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "promise" mean?
As a noun, "promise" means: Versprechen, Versprechung, Zusage, Zusicherung
How do you pronounce "promise"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "promise" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "promise" come from?
"promise" is a German word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "promise", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Ravioli#52,358Monteur#52,286Schwank#52,405Melitta#52,272

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list