potentate

Other forms of potentate

plural

potentates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about potentate

What does potentate mean?

potentate means "a ruler who is unconstrained by law".

How many syllables are in potentate?

potentate has 3 syllables: po-ten-tate. The stress falls on "po". In IPA it is /ˈpoʊtənˌteɪt/.

What is another word for potentate?

Close synonyms include dictator. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is potentate a common word?

potentate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with potentate?

29 words rhyme with potentate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.