collapsus
\kɔ.lap.sys\
The verdict
“collapsus” is uncommon French (frequency #80,053 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,053
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Malaise, chute rapide des forces, avec un affaiblissement du pouls, sans toutefois être une syncope.
Corpus desk
Index FR-collapsus · collapsus · French
collapsus · rank #80,053 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,053
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH collaborera
Nearest frequency peer: collaborera (-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 « collapsus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Coblence
Coblence
19,950 corpus weight
- collaborera
collaborera
19,949 corpus weight
- collapsus
collapsus
19,948 corpus weight
- collectionn…
collectionnait
19,947 corpus weight
- colonisent
colonisent
19,946 corpus weight
- comba
comba
19,945 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « collapsus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | collapsus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.lap.sys\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #80,053 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « collapsus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
collapsus is uncommon French at frequency #80,053 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ.lap.sys\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for collapsus, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is collapsus, spelled C-O-L-L-A-P-S-U-S.
Definition
- 1Malaise, chute rapide des forces, avec un affaiblissement du pouls, sans toutefois être une syncope.
- 2Affaissement d'un organe, par exemple le poumon.
- 3Effondrement de quelque chose de matériel ou d'immatériel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how collapsus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un jour que j'étais chez eux, j'avais lu une lettre en cachette, il s'agissait d'une affaire où mon père, victime d'un collapsus, avait été transporté à l'hôpital en ambulance avec des douleurs aiguës dans la poitrine.
Le collapsus peut exister partout où les bronches capillaires sont obstruées, mais il a pour siège de prédilection la moitié postérieure du poumon.
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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