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potently

adverb

potently is an adverb meaning “In a potent manner; powerfully” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-O-T-E-N-T-L-Y, and it appears about once in every 12 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does potently mean?

adverb

  1. 1

    In a potent manner; powerfully.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of potently

  • more potently comparative
  • most potently superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is potently?

Potently appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 103,949th 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).

Where does potently come from?

From potent + -ly.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).