Potentat
[potɛnˈtaːt]
The verdict
“Potentat” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Person, die politische oder viel militärische Macht besitzt
Corpus desk
Index DE-potentat · Potentat · German
Potentat · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Potentat |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [potɛnˈtaːt] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Potentat“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Potentat is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [potɛnˈtaːt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Person, die politische oder viel militärische Macht besitzt".
Potentat has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Potentat, spelled P-O-T-E-N-T-A-T.
Definition
- 1Person, die politische oder viel militärische Macht besitzt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Potentat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Publius Cornelius Scipio kommandierte zwischen 211 und 201 v.Chr. ununterbrochen große Armeen, ähnlich wie Titus Quinctius Flamininus, der zwischen 198 und 183 v.Chr. maßgeblich Einfluss auf die römische Ostpolitik ausübte. Diese herausgehobenen Potentaten von ihrer Ausnahmestellung in das System der senatorischen Gleichheit zurückzuführen, sollte sich z…
„Und nach dem Verbot des Sklavenhandels sind es vor allem einheimische Potentaten, die sich neue Geschäftsmodelle einfallen lassen, um mit den Europäern weiter Handel zu treiben.“
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.