levadovslevasTell them apart

Quick tell: levado is a adjective, levas is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#2,484
“levado” frequency rank
#25,726
“levas” frequency rank
28210
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature levado levas
Definition transportado segunda pessoa do singular do presente indicativo do verbo levar

Letter map: levado vs levas

Shared letters muted; letters that set levado and levas apart highlighted. Shared run: 4.

6 ch
levado
5 ch
levas

Part-of-speech tell for levado / levas

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: levado is anadjective and levasaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 28210, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

levado is recorded at frequency rank #2,484, classified as anadj, pronounced /leˈva.du/. levas is at rank #25,726, 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 28210, this pair ranks #40,626 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of levado vs levas

Shared letters: aelv. Private to "levado": do. Private to "levas": s.

"levado" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV  ·  "levas" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • levadoelvado · leavdo · levaddo · levaod · levdao · levvado · llevado · lveado
  • levaselvas · leavs · levass · levsa · levvas · llevas · lveas

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "levado" and "levas" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "levado" is an adjective and "levas" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "levado" or "levas" show up more?
"levado" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,484 in our Portuguese list, against #25,726 for "levas". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

You've compared "levado" and "levas". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "levado" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "levas" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #40,626 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "levado" and "levas" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "least vs levas". 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 #40,626 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list