levarvslevarãoWhat's the difference?

Which to use

“levar” and “levarão” are a confusable Portuguese pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#522
“levar” frequency rank
#25,725
“levarão” frequency rank
26247
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature levar levarão
Definition transportar consigo terceira pessoa do plural do futuro do indicativo do verbo levar

Letter map: levar vs levarão

Shared letters muted; letters that set levar and levarão apart highlighted. Shared run: 5. levar runs 5 letters (CVCVC) against levarão's 7 (CVCVCVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
levar
7 ch
levarão

Spelling & dictionary notes on levar vs levarão

levar and levarão are indexed as a confusable Portuguese pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they differ by 2 extra letter(s) - “levar” sits inside “levarão”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 26247, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

levar is recorded at frequency rank #522, classified as averb. levarão is at rank #25,725, tagged as averb, pronounced /le.vɐ.ˈɾãw/.

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 26247, this pair ranks #42,937 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of levar vs levarão

Shared letters: aelrv. Private to "levar": -. Private to "levarão": oã.

"levar" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC  ·  "levarão" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • levar ← elvar · leavr · levarr · levra · levvar · llevar · lvear

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "levar" and "levarão" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They differ by 2 extra letter(s) - “levar” sits inside “levarão”, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
Frequency check: "levar" vs "levarão" - which ranks higher?
"levar" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #522 in our Portuguese list, against #25,725 for "levarão". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "levar" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "levarão" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #42,937 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "levar" and "levarão" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "levar vs logar". 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 #42,937 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