How to spell promote

hear itpro·mote/prə'moʊt/verbPrefixes and work

What it means: To advance someone to a higher position.

In a sentence: The teacher will promote the best students to the next level.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as pramote or promoot.

Same family: promotion, promoter, promotional, demote, advance. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Promote” comes from Latin *promovere*, meaning “to move forward,” from *pro-* (“forward”) and *movere* (“to move”). It originally referred to physically moving something ahead before it came to mean moving a person up to a higher rank or helping an idea become more popular.

Patterns it uses: Drop the e before a suffix?

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