deixa
Portuguese, noun
deixa is spelled D-E-I-X-A (5 letters) and appears 209 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 444th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Deixa is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “cue (action or event that is a signal to do something)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of deixar. With an accent, deixá is a different word: “apocopic form of deixar; used preceding the pronouns lo, la, los or…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “legado”.
What does deixa mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininecue (action or event that is a signal to do something)
- 2
femininefloodplain (plain surrounding a river that experiences periodical flooding)
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
apocopic form of deixar; used preceding the pronouns lo, la, los or las
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. legado 2. ato ou efeito de deixar 3. sinal que indica para o ator a hora de entrar em cena 4. ocasião, oportunidade
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 deixa
- deixas plural
- deyxa alternative obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to deixa
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is deixa in Portuguese?
deixa appears 209 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).