colapso
[koˈlapso]
The verdict
“colapso” is a regularly-used Spanish word, ranked #8,627 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #8,627
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7
- letters
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Postración en la que una persona cae de forma repentina por el debilitamiento de sus fuerzas vitales.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | colapso |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [koˈlapso] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #8,627 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “colapso” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for colapso is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [koˈlapso]. Corpus data places it at rank #8,627 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Postración en la que una persona cae de forma repentina por el debilitamiento de sus fuerzas vitales.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for colapso, with forms such as "ccolapso", "cloapso", and "coalpso". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "Colas", "coloso", "colarse", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is colapso, spelled C-O-L-A-P-S-O.
Definition
- 1Postración en la que una persona cae de forma repentina por el debilitamiento de sus fuerzas vitales.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccolapso,cloapso,coalpso,colapos,colappso,colapsso,colaspo,collapso,colpaso,oclapso
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of colapso - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “colapso”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-O-L-A-P-S-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [koˈlapso] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Colas” - see the side-by-side comparison. colapso vs Colas
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.