lead vs levar, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“lead” is an adjective and “levar” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#17,835
“lead” frequency rank: #522
“levar” frequency rank: 18357
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	lead	levar
Definition	o mais importante	transportar consigo

Letter map: lead vs levar

Shared letters muted; letters that set lead and levar apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. lead runs 4 letters (CVVC) against levar's 5 (CVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch

lead

5 ch

levar

Role in the sentence - lead and levar

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: lead is anadjective and levaraverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 18357, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

lead is recorded at frequency rank #17,835, classified as anadj, pronounced AFI: /lɛd/. levar is at rank #522, tagged as averb.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 18357, this pair ranks #52,645 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of lead vs levar

Shared letters: ael. Private to "lead": d. Private to "levar": rv.

"lead" · 4 letters · shape CVVC · "levar" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

lead ← elad · laed · leadd · leda · llead
levar ← elvar · leavr · levarr · levra · levvar · llevar · lvear

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "lead" for "levar" ever safe?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "lead" is an adjective and "levar" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Frequency check: "lead" vs "levar" - which ranks higher?

"levar" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #522 in our Portuguese list, against #17,835 for "lead". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

You've compared "lead" and "levar". Here's where to go from here.

Full dictionary entry for "lead" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "levar" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #52,645 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"lead" and "levar" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "lead vs least". Nearby pair
Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #52,645 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.