potentats
\pɔ.tɑ̃.ta\
The verdict
“potentats” is uncommon French (frequency #87,033 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,033
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de potentat.
Corpus desk
Index FR-potentats · potentats · French
potentats · rank #87,033 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,033
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pouic
Nearest frequency peer: pouic (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « potentats »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- populaireme…
populairement
12,972 corpus weight
- populeuse
populeuse
12,971 corpus weight
- porco
porco
12,970 corpus weight
- potentats
potentats
12,968 corpus weight
- pouic
pouic
12,967 corpus weight
- praticienne
praticienne
12,965 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « potentats » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | potentats |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔ.tɑ̃.ta\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #87,033 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « potentats » en français
Rare enough to double-check
potentats is uncommon French at frequency #87,033 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɔ.tɑ̃.ta\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de potentat.".
Zero misspellings are on record for potentats in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is potentats, spelled P-O-T-E-N-T-A-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de potentat.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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