colapso

/[koˈlapso]/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#8,627

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

8

similar word pairs

colapso is aSpanishnoun. It means: Postración en la que una persona cae de forma repentina por el debilitamiento de sus fuerzas vitales. Pronounced [koˈlapso]. It ranks #8,627 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with Colas and coloso.

Key facts for colapso
PropertyValue
Headwordcolapso
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[koˈlapso]
Letters7
Frequency rank#8,627
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of colapso in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for colapso is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for colapso, with forms such as "ccolapso", "cloapso", and "coalpso". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "Colas", "coloso", "colarse", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is colapso, spelled C-O-L-A-P-S-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Postración 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

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for colapso

Misspelling Variants of "colapso"

ccolapso8cloapso7coalpso7colapos7colappso8colapsso8colaspo7collapso8
Misspelling Variants of "colapso"

Frequency rank: #8,627 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "colapso"?
"colapso" is spelled C-O-L-A-P-S-O. The IPA pronunciation is [koˈlapso].
What does "colapso" mean?
As a noun, "colapso" means: Postración en la que una persona cae de forma repentina por el debilitamiento de sus fuerzas vitales.
What words are commonly confused with "colapso"?
"colapso" is commonly confused with "Colas", "coloso", "colarse". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "colapso"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "colapso" is [koˈlapso]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "colapso" come from?
"colapso" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.