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relapso

Portuguese, noun/ʁeˈla.pi.su/

relapso is spelled R-E-L-A-P-S-O (7 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written Portuguese, the 101,652nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Relapso is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “relapse (the act of relapsing: returning a previous, worse state)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does relapso mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinerelapse (the act of relapsing: returning a previous, worse state)

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. que tem negligência 2. em que falta diligência 3. displicente

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 relapso

  • relapsos plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce relapso?

  • Brazil /ʁeˈla.pi.su/
  • Brazil [heˈla.pi.su]
  • Brazil /ʁeˈlap.su/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to relapso

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is relapso in Portuguese?

relapso appears about once in every 11 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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