promotion

/\pʁɔ.mɔ.sjɔ̃\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,379

in French word usage

Misspellings

13

tracked variants

Confusables

3

similar word pairs

promotion is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action par laquelle on élève à la fois plusieurs personnes à un même grade, à une même dignité. Pronounced \pʁɔ.mɔ.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #2,379 in French word frequency. Often confused with proportion and promotions.

Key facts for promotion
PropertyValue
Headwordpromotion
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pʁɔ.mɔ.sjɔ̃\
Letters9
Frequency rank#2,379
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of promotion in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for promotion is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁɔ.mɔ.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,379 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for promotion, with forms such as "pormotion", "ppromotion", and "prmootion". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "proportion", "promotions", "probation", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is promotion, spelled P-R-O-M-O-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action par laquelle on élève à la fois plusieurs personnes à un même grade, à une même dignité.
  2. 2
    Ensemble des élèves d’une même année.
  3. 3
    Nomination, élévation d’une ou de plusieurs personnes à une dignité, à un emploi supérieur.
  4. 4
    Ensemble des moyens mis en œuvre pour promouvoir un bien, un service ou un évènement.
  5. 5
    Événement organisé pour un temps limité afin d'attirer l'attention sur une offre ou un produit en proposant des conditions spéciales.
  6. 6
    Échange immédiat d'un pion par une pièce quand il atteint la dernière rangée.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: pormotion,ppromotion,prmootion,prommotion,promoiton,promotino,promotionn,promotoin,promottion,promtoion,proomtion,prromotion,rpomotion

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for promotion

Misspelling Variants of "promotion"

pormotion9ppromotion10prmootion9prommotion10promoiton9promotino9promotionn10promotoin9
Misspelling Variants of "promotion"

Frequency rank: #2,379 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "promotion"?
"promotion" is spelled P-R-O-M-O-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \pʁɔ.mɔ.sjɔ̃\.
What does "promotion" mean?
As a noun, "promotion" means: Action par laquelle on élève à la fois plusieurs personnes à un même grade, à une même dignité.
What words are commonly confused with "promotion"?
"promotion" is commonly confused with "proportion", "promotions", "probation". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "promotion"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "promotion" is \pʁɔ.mɔ.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "promotion" come from?
"promotion" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.