léu
/ˈlɛw/
The verdict
“léu” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #69,714 among 581 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,714
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 581
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - inação, ociosidade, vagar
Corpus desk
Index PT-leu · léu · Portuguese
léu · rank #69,714 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,714
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 581
- PHOTO-FINISH láctico
Nearest frequency peer: láctico (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “léu”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- lambreta
lambreta
30,307 corpus weight
- láctico
láctico
30,288 corpus weight
- léu
léu
30,287 corpus weight
- marão
marão
30,280 corpus weight
- meal
meal
30,276 corpus weight
- microbiota
microbiota
30,265 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “léu” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | léu |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈlɛw/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #69,714 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “léu” em português
Rare enough to double-check
léu is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #69,714 among 581 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈlɛw/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for léu, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is léu, spelled L-É-U.
Definition
- 1inação, ociosidade, vagar
- 2ocasião, ensejo, oportunidade
Synonyms
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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