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potencialmente

Portuguese, adverb/po.tẽ.siˌawˈmẽ.t͡ʃi/

potencialmente is a Portuguese adverb meaning “potentially (with the possibility of happening or being so)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “de modo potencial”.

What does potencialmente mean in English?

adverb

  1. 1

    potentially (with the possibility of happening or being so)

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

adverb: 1. de modo potencial

The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.

Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of potencialmente

  • mais potencialmente comparative
  • o mais potencialmente superlative

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce potencialmente?

  • Brazil /po.tẽ.siˌawˈmẽ.t͡ʃi/
  • Brazil [po.tẽ.siˌaʊ̯ˈmẽ.t͡ʃi]
  • Brazil /po.tẽˌsjawˈmẽ.t͡ʃi/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to potencialmente

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is potencialmente in Portuguese?

potencialmente appears 6.8 times per million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).