promissory
/ˈpɹɑmɪsɔɹi/adjective
promissory is spelled P-R-O-M-I-S-S-O-R-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is promisory: about 60 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 16 of all searches for the word. Promissory is an adjective meaning “Containing or consisting of a promise”.
How many letters and syllables are in promissory?
| Letters | 10: P-R-O-M-I-S-S-O-R-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 3 million words; the 48,775th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, promisory, about 60 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell promissory?
Promissory is spelled P-R-O-M-I-S-S-O-R-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 16 of the searches for promissory in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is promissory?
Promissory appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 48,775th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce promissory?
- US /ˈpɹɑmɪsɔɹi/
Promissory has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-NaomiAmethyst-promissory.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What does promissory mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Containing or consisting of a promise.
- 2
Stipulating the future actions required of the parties to an insurance policy or other business agreement.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does promissory come from?
From Middle English promissorye, from Medieval Latin prōmissōrius. By surface analysis, promise + -ory.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).