promote
[pʁoˈmɔʊ̯tə]
The verdict
“promote” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs promoten
Corpus desk
Index DE-promote · promote · German
promote · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | promote |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [pʁoˈmɔʊ̯tə] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „promote“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
promote is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [pʁoˈmɔʊ̯tə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for promote in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is promote, spelled P-R-O-M-O-T-E.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs promoten
- 21. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs promoten
- 31. Person Singular Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv des Verbs promoten
- 43. Person Singular Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv des Verbs promoten
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.