potent
[poˈtɛnt]
The verdict
“potent” is uncommon German (frequency #98,928 among 3,409 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,928
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Potenz, sexuelle Energie besitzend
Corpus desk
Index DE-potent · potent · German
potent · rank #98,928 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,928
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH Postämter
Nearest frequency peer: Postämter (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „potent“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- popolo
popolo
1,077 corpus weight
- Porphyr
Porphyr
1,076 corpus weight
- postoperati…
postoperativen
1,075 corpus weight
- Postämter
Postämter
1,074 corpus weight
- potent
potent
1,073 corpus weight
- Priestersch…
Priesterschaft
1,069 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „potent“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | potent |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [poˈtɛnt] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #98,928 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „potent“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
potent is uncommon German at frequency #98,928 among 3,409 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [poˈtɛnt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for potent, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is potent, spelled P-O-T-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Potenz, sexuelle Energie besitzend
- 2zur Zeugung von Kindern fähig seiend, fähig seiend, eine Erektion zu bekommen
- 3Einfluss habend; mächtig oder wichtig seiend
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how potent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Ich bin einfach nur wirklich potent, wenn ich eben verschiedene junge Damen habe.“ - Rolf Eden
„Obwohl das Osmanische Reich zunehmend in die Defensive geriet, war es noch immer militärisch sehr potent.“
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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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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