colapsar

verb

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “colapsar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for colapsar
PropertyValue
Headwordcolapsar
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechVerb
Letters8
Frequency rank#61,432
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “colapsar” em português

Da esquerda para a direita: o pouco que carrega a fala diária, depois a cauda longa quase invisível.colapsarcai nesta cauda de raridade:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

O eixo é logarítmico: cada tick marca cerca de dez vezes menos frequência. Vizinhos raros da mesma faixa: “claw” (#61,427), “Cello” (#61,415), “cataclismo” (#61,411). Entre 2,140 lemas com “C”, “colapsar” fica em #61,432. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    sofrer um colapso (intransitivo)
  2. 2
    causar um colapso (transitivo)
  3. 3
    ter 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)
  4. 4
    alterar-se de maneira abrupta e danosa; falhar subitamente; aniquilar-se; arruinar-se; desintegrar-se (intransitivo)
  5. 5
    fazer perder ou perder a turgescência; murchar (transitivo)

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how colapsar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. A empresa do meu primo colapsou.
  2. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "colapsar"?
"colapsar" is spelled C-O-L-A-P-S-A-R.
What does "colapsar" mean?
As a verb, "colapsar" means: sofrer um colapso (intransitivo)
What language does "colapsar" come from?
"colapsar" is a Portuguese word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "colapsar", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list