lean vs levar, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#29,804
“lean” frequency rank: #522
“levar” frequency rank: 30326
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	lean	levar
Definition	magro, sem excessos, sem peso extra, enxuto	transportar consigo

Letter map: lean vs levar

Shared letters muted; letters that set lean and levar apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. lean 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

lean

5 ch

levar

Part-of-speech tell for lean / levar

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: lean is anadjective and levaraverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 30326, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

lean is recorded at frequency rank #29,804, classified as anadj, pronounced /liːn/. 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 30326, this pair ranks #38,059 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of lean vs levar

Shared letters: ael. Private to "lean": n. Private to "levar": rv.

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

Known mistypes of this pair

lean ← elan · leann · lena · llean
levar ← elvar · leavr · levarr · levra · levvar · llevar · lvear

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "lean" and "levar" mean the same thing in a sentence?

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

In ordinary Portuguese text, does "lean" or "levar" show up more?

"levar" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #522 in our Portuguese list, against #29,804 for "lean". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

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Full dictionary entry for "lean" 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 #38,059 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"lean" and "levar" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "lean vs Leben". 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 #38,059 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.