levitar
/ləviˈtar/
The verdict
“levitar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #62,965 among 581 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,965
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 581
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mover-se sem tocar o chão e sem que nenhuma estrutura aparente esteja erguendo a pessoa/objeto
Corpus desk
Index PT-levitar · levitar · Portuguese
levitar · rank #62,965 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,965
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 581
- PHOTO-FINISH legar
Nearest frequency peer: legar (-4 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 “levitar”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- kitten
kitten
37,055 corpus weight
- Lacombe
Lacombe
37,049 corpus weight
- laundry
laundry
37,045 corpus weight
- legar
legar
37,040 corpus weight
- levitar
levitar
37,036 corpus weight
- marasmo
marasmo
37,013 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “levitar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | levitar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ləviˈtar/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #62,965 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “levitar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
levitar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #62,965 among 581 “L” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ləviˈtar/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
levitar has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is levitar, spelled L-E-V-I-T-A-R.
Definition
- 1mover-se sem tocar o chão e sem que nenhuma estrutura aparente esteja erguendo a pessoa/objeto
- 2mover-se de maneira suave
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how levitar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A bailarina parecia levitar.
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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