lés
Portuguese, noun
lés is spelled L-É-S (3 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese, the 61,435th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lés is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “east (one of the four principal compass points)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, lês is a different word: “second-person singular present indicative of ler”.
What does lés mean in English?
particle
- 1
only used in de lés a lés
noun
- 1
masculineeast (one of the four principal compass points)
verb
- 1
second-person singular present indicative of ler
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of lés
- leses plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is lés in Portuguese?
lés appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).