Lev
/lɛu̯/
The verdict
“Lev” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #29,411) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #29,411
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 581
- “L” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Leão, quinto signo do zodíaco
Corpus desk
Index PT-lev · Lev · Portuguese
Lev · rank #29,411 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,411
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 581
- PHOTO-FINISH legislar
Nearest frequency peer: legislar (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Lev”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Itaipu
Itaipu
70,596 corpus weight
- legislar
legislar
70,591 corpus weight
- Lev
Lev
70,590 corpus weight
- liberalizaç…
liberalização
70,589 corpus weight
- lila
lila
70,586 corpus weight
- louvável
louvável
70,583 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Lev” sits against the nearest ranked Portuguese headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lev |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /lɛu̯/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #29,411 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Onde “Lev” fica na frequência do português
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Lev is neighbouring look-alikes ("ls", "ló", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /lɛu̯/. Frequency #29,411 among 581 “L” headwords. Gloss: "Leão, quinto signo do zodíaco".
Lev has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ls", "ló", "lhe", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is Lev, spelled L-E-V.
Definition
- 1Leão, quinto signo do zodíaco
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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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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- "Lev" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "ls". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #29,411 among Portuguese headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.