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lêvedo

Portuguese, noun/ˈle.ve.du/

lêvedo is spelled L-Ê-V-E-D-O (6 letters) and appears about once in every 36 million words in written Portuguese, the 172,935th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lêvedo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “yeast” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “nome genérico de certos fungos, agentes de fermentação que respiram, quer aeróbia, quer anaerobiamente”.

What does lêvedo mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    leavened or fermented with yeast

noun

  1. 1

    masculineyeast

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. nome genérico de certos fungos, agentes de fermentação que respiram, quer aeróbia, quer anaerobiamente

noun: 1. nome genérico de certos fungos, agentes de fermentação que respiram, quer aeróbia, quer anaerobiamente

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 lêvedo

  • lêveda feminine
  • lêvedos masculine plural
  • lêvedas feminine plural
  • lêvado alternative Northern Portugal
  • lévado alternative Northern Portugal
  • lebdo alternative Northern Portugal
  • lebe alternative Northern Portugal
  • levedo alternative

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

How do you pronounce lêvedo?

  • Brazil /ˈle.ve.du/
  • Portugal /ˈle.vɨ.du/
  • Portugal [ˈle.vɨ.ðu]

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

How common is lêvedo in Portuguese?

lêvedo appears about once in every 36 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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