power-of-attorney
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "power-of-attorney", 17-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Wiktionary, and usage frequency ranked against an open word-frequency list covering the top 100,000 English words. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "power-of-attorney" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "power-of-attorney" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
power of attorney is aEnglishnoun. It means: The legal authorisation of one person to act as the agent of another. Pronounced /ˌpaʊə(r)əv əˈtɜː(r)niː/.
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| Headword | power of attorney |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌpaʊə(r)əv əˈtɜː(r)niː/ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The English entry for power of attorney is 17 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˌpaʊə(r)əv əˈtɜː(r)niː/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for power of attorney in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From attorney (“any personal representative”). Attorney now rarely has that sense outside of fixed expressions like this one. Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is power of attorney, spelled P-O-W-E-R- -O-F- -A-T-T-O-R-N-E-Y, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1The legal authorisation of one person to act as the agent of another.
- 2A legal document allowing one person to act as the agent of another.
Etymology
From attorney (“any personal representative”). Attorney now rarely has that sense outside of fixed expressions like this one.
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