omnipotence
/ɒmˈnɪpətəns/
"omnipotence" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“omnipotence” is uncommon English (frequency #54,985 among 15,494 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,985
- frequency rank, English
- 15,494
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Unlimited power; commonly attributed to a deity or deities.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | omnipotence |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɒmˈnɪpətəns/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #54,985 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “omnipotence” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
omnipotence is uncommon English at frequency #54,985 among 15,494 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ɒmˈnɪpətəns/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Unlimited power; commonly attributed to a deity or deities.".
Zero misspellings are on record for omnipotence in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Late Middle English omnipotens, from Old French omnipotence, from Latin omnipotentia. The correct English form is omnipotence, spelled O-M-N-I-P-O-T-E-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Unlimited power; commonly attributed to a deity or deities.
Etymology
From Late Middle English omnipotens, from Old French omnipotence, from Latin omnipotentia.
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); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct English spelling is O-M-N-I-P-O-T-E-N-C-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.