promotion
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | promotion |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.mɔ.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #2,379 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Action par laquelle on élève à la fois plusieurs personnes à un même grade, à une même dignité.
- 2Ensemble des élèves d’une même année.
- 3Nomination, élévation d’une ou de plusieurs personnes à une dignité, à un emploi supérieur.
- 4Ensemble des moyens mis en œuvre pour promouvoir un bien, un service ou un évènement.
- 5Événement organisé pour un temps limité afin d'attirer l'attention sur une offre ou un produit en proposant des conditions spéciales.
- 6Échange 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"
Frequency rank: #2,379 in French
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