colapsar
The verdict
“colapsar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #61,432 among 3,948 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,432
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 3,948
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - sofrer um colapso (intransitivo)
| 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) |
Where “colapsar” sits in Portuguese frequency
Rare enough to double-check
colapsar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #61,432 among 3,948 “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)
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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Using “colapsar”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is C-O-L-A-P-S-A-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.