promo

\pʁɔ.mo\

/\pʁɔ.mo\/ noun

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The verdict

“promo” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,012. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#6,012
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Promotion.

Corpus desk

Index FR-promo · promo · French

promo · rank #6,012 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #6,012
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH profité

Nearest frequency peer: profité (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « promo »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « promo » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

promo vs pros
60% similar
promo vs prou
60% similar
promo vs prot
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for promo
PropertyValue
Headwordpromo
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pʁɔ.mo\
Letters5
Frequency rank#6,012
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « promo »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.promose place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « profité » (#6,011), « prophète » (#6,013), « produisent » (#6,010). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « promo » est au #6,012. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around promo (IPA \pʁɔ.mo\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,012 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for promo, with forms such as "pormo", "ppromo", and "prmoo". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pros", "prou", "prot", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is promo, spelled P-R-O-M-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    Promotion.
  2. 2
    Promotion.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Il est 14 H 30, je fonce à Conforama. J’achète le BZ pour ta future chambre de grand. La vendeuse est sympa, elle me le laisse au prix de la promo qui se terminait hier.
  2. Chaque semaine, des humoristes viendront faire leur promo — en l’occurence Thaïs, Tristan Lopin et Bérangère Krief pour le premier numéro.

This word in other languages

promo(English)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • pormo
  • ppromo
  • prmoo
  • prommo
  • proom
  • prromo
  • rpomo

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of promo - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

pormo2ppromo1prmoo2prommo1proom2prromo1rpomo2
Edit distance from "promo"

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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "promo"?
"promo" is spelled P-R-O-M-O. The IPA pronunciation is \pʁɔ.mo\.
What does "promo" mean?
As a noun, "promo" means: Promotion.
What words are commonly confused with "promo"?
"promo" is commonly confused with "pros", "prou", "prot". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "promo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "promo" is \pʁɔ.mo\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "promo" come from?
"promo" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

prier#6,009pompe#6,006rater#6,018rejet#6,020

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

pourrai7 variantsgreen7 variantsgolfe7 variantsautrui7 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list