promouvoir
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,604
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
promouvoir is aFrenchverb. It means: Élever à quelque grade, à quelque dignité d’un rang supérieur. Pronounced \pʁɔ.mu.vwaʁ\. It ranks #4,604 in French word frequency.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | promouvoir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.mu.vwaʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #4,604 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for promouvoir is 10 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁɔ.mu.vwaʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,604 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for promouvoir, with forms such as "pormouvoir", "ppromouvoir", and "prmoouvoir". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 promouvoir, spelled P-R-O-M-O-U-V-O-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Élever à quelque grade, à quelque dignité d’un rang supérieur.
- 2Provoquer le développement ou le succès d’un projet, d’une création.
- 3Inciter par la promotion à l’achat de quelque chose.
- 4Mouvoir en avant, tendre.
- 5Remplacer (un pion qui a atteint le dernier rang de l'échiquier) par une reine (le plus souvent), une tour, un fou ou un chevalier.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: pormouvoir,ppromouvoir,prmoouvoir,prommouvoir,promouovir,promouvior,promouvoirr,promouvori,promouvvoir,promovuoir,promuovoir,proomuvoir,prromouvoir,rpomouvoir
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Misspelling Variants of "promouvoir"
Frequency rank: #4,604 in French
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