promotion
pro·mo·tion/pɹəˈmoʊʃn̩/noun
promotion is spelled P-R-O-M-O-T-I-O-N, 3 syllables: pro·mo·tion. The wrong spelling people search most is pomotion: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 667 of all searches for the word. Promotion is a noun meaning “An advancement in rank or position”. The plural of promotion is promotions.
How many letters and syllables are in promotion?
| Letters | 9: P-R-O-M-O-T-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: pro·mo·tion |
| In writing | 26 times per million words; the 3,558th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, pomotion, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 promotion?
Promotion is spelled P-R-O-M-O-T-I-O-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 657 of the searches for promotion 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 promotion?
Promotion appears 26 times per million words in written English, the 3,558th 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 promotion?
- UK /pɹəˈməʊʃn̩/
- US /pɹəˈmoʊʃn̩/
Promotion has 3 syllables, split pro·mo·tion in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-promotion.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of promotion
- promotions plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does promotion mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An advancement in rank or position.
I'll have to give myself a promotion!
- 2
Dissemination of information in order to increase its popularity.
the promotion of the idea of global warming in schools
- 3
An event intended to increase the reach or image of a product or brand.
The price cut is serving as a promotion of the manufacturer's new beverage varieties.
- 4
Transformation of a pawn into a piece (by reaching the opponent's back rank).
- 5
Forward motion. (Contrast remotion.)
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate promotion?
Wiktionary records 2 abbreviations of promotion: prom., promo.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Promotion in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | promotion |
| German | Beförderung, Aufstieg, Höherversetzung , Förderung, Werbung, Bewerbung |
| Portuguese | promoção , divulgação, publicidade |
| Spanish | ascenso, promoción , divulgación, propagación |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.