potentialité
\pɔ.tɑ̃.sja.li.te\
The verdict
“potentialité” is uncommon French (frequency #65,426 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,426
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État de ce qui existe en puissance.
Corpus desk
Index FR-potentialite · potentialité · French
potentialité · rank #65,426 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,426
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH poseurs
Nearest frequency peer: poseurs (-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 « potentialité »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pompent
pompent
34,578 corpus weight
- portages
portages
34,577 corpus weight
- poseurs
poseurs
34,576 corpus weight
- potentialité
potentialité
34,575 corpus weight
- poulettes
poulettes
34,574 corpus weight
- princières
princières
34,573 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « potentialité » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | potentialité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔ.tɑ̃.sja.li.te\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #65,426 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « potentialité » en français
Rare enough to double-check
potentialité is uncommon French at frequency #65,426 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɔ.tɑ̃.sja.li.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "État de ce qui existe en puissance.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for potentialité, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is potentialité, spelled P-O-T-E-N-T-I-A-L-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1État de ce qui existe en puissance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how potentialité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A l’élément de la potentialité correspond un principe de détermination complète.
Avec la vogue du récréotourisme, la population locale prend conscience des autres potentialités du lac et des contraintes imposées par le mode d'exploitation industrielle de cette ressource naturelle.
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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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