potentiation
/pəʊˌten.ʃiːˈeɪ.ʃən/noun
potentiation is a noun meaning “the synergistic effect of two drugs given simultaneously” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-O-T-E-N-T-I-A-T-I-O-N and has 5 syllables, and it appears about once in every 9 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of potentiation is potentiations.
What does potentiation mean?
noun
- 1
the synergistic effect of two drugs given simultaneously
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce potentiation?
- UK /pəʊˌten.ʃiːˈeɪ.ʃən/
Potentiation has 5 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of potentiation
- potentiations plural
- potentation
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is potentiation?
Potentiation appears about once in every 9 million words in written English, the 91,522nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Potentiation in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the action of a substance:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | potentiation |
| Spanish | potenciación |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.