impasse
Portuguese, noun/ĩˈpa.si/
impasse is spelled I-M-P-A-S-S-E (7 letters) and appears 4.6 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 13,032nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Impasse is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “impasse (a situation in which no progress can be made)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of impar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “circunstância onde é difícil escolher uma solução; situação de saída aparentemente impossível”.
What does impasse mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineimpasse (a situation in which no progress can be made)
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of impar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. circunstância onde é difícil escolher uma solução; situação de saída aparentemente impossível 2. aquilo que dificulta, impede, embaraça a realização de algo 3. o momento em que algo está sem solução
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of impasse
- impasses plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce impasse?
- Brazil /ĩˈpa.si/
- Portugal /ĩˈpa.sɨ/
- Brazil /ĩˈpa.se/ (Região Sul)
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to impasse
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is impasse in Portuguese?
impasse appears 4.6 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).