potencia
Spanish, noun
potencia is spelled P-O-T-E-N-C-I-A (8 letters) and appears 30 times per million words in written Spanish, the 2,774th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Potencia is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “power, potency” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of potenciar. With an accent, potenciá is a different word: “second-person singular voseo imperative of potenciar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Fuerza, la habilidad o capacidad para realizar algo”.
What does potencia mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininepower, potency
- 2
femininepowerlifting
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
second-person singular voseo imperative of potenciar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Fuerza, la habilidad o capacidad para realizar algo. 2. Es el trabajo realizado por unidad de tiempo o la cantidad de energía transferida por unidad de tiempo. Una de sus unidades es el watt. 3. El producto (multiplicación) de una base por sí misma en una determinada cantidad de veces determinada por un exponente entero. 4. Por extensión, la función inversa del logaritmo.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of potencia
- potencias plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to potencia
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is potencia in Spanish?
potencia appears 30 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).