colapsar
The verdict
“colapsar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #61,432 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,432
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sofrer um colapso (intransitivo)
Corpus desk
Index PT-colapsar · colapsar · Portuguese
colapsar · rank #61,432 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,432
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH claw
Nearest frequency peer: claw (-5 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.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “colapsar”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- cataclismo
cataclismo
38,590 corpus weight
- Cello
Cello
38,586 corpus weight
- claw
claw
38,574 corpus weight
- colapsar
colapsar
38,569 corpus weight
- cordon
cordon
38,537 corpus weight
- cosmonauta
cosmonauta
38,535 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “colapsar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | colapsar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #61,432 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “colapsar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
colapsar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #61,432 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for colapsar in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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. The correct Portuguese form is colapsar, spelled C-O-L-A-P-S-A-R.
Definition
- 1sofrer um colapso (intransitivo)
- 2causar um colapso (transitivo)
- 3ter uma quebra ou diminuição súbita na força vital, no vigor, no estado físico geral ou no autocontrole, em razão de causas físicas ou psicogênicas (intransitivo)
- 4alterar-se de maneira abrupta e danosa; falhar subitamente; aniquilar-se; arruinar-se; desintegrar-se (intransitivo)
- 5fazer perder ou perder a turgescência; murchar (transitivo)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how colapsar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A empresa do meu primo colapsou.
O sal colapsa as células.
This word in other languages
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 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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