lexeme
/ˈlɛkˌsiːm/noun
lexeme is spelled L-E-X-E-M-E: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 39 million words in written English, the 191,932nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, lexeme means “The abstract minimum unit of language or meaning that underlies such a set” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of lexeme is lexemes.
How many letters and syllables are in lexeme?
| Letters | 6: L-E-X-E-M-E |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 39 million words; the 191,932nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is lexeme?
Lexeme appears about once in every 39 million words in written English, the 191,932nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce lexeme?
- /ˈlɛkˌsiːm/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-lexeme.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of lexeme
- lexemes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does lexeme mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The abstract minimum unit of language or meaning that underlies such a set.
- 2
The set itself; a lexemic family.
- 3
The wordform chosen to represent such a set or family.
- 4
An individual instance of a continuous character sequence without spaces, used in lexical analysis.
Near-synonym: token
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Lexeme in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense linguistics: unit of vocabulary, set of different forms of the same lemma:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does lexeme come from?
From Latin lexis, from Ancient Greek λέξις (léxis, “word”) + -eme, a suffix indicating a fundamental unit in some aspect of linguistic structure, on the model of phoneme.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).