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lexicographic

/ˌleksɪkəˈɡɹæfɪk/adjective

lexicographic is spelled L-E-X-I-C-O-G-R-A-P-H-I-C: 13 letters. It appears about once in every 20 million words in written English, the 134,976th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, lexicographic means “Like a dictionary, relating to lexicography (the writing of a dictionary)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in lexicographic?

Letters13: L-E-X-I-C-O-G-R-A-P-H-I-C
In writingabout once in every 20 million words; the 134,976th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone 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 lexicographic?

Lexicographic appears about once in every 20 million words in written English, the 134,976th 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 lexicographic?

  • Australia /ˌleksɪkəˈɡɹæfɪk/
  • Australia /ˌleksɪkəʉˈɡɹæfɪk/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-lexicographic.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of lexicographic

  • more lexicographic comparative
  • most lexicographic superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does lexicographic mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Like a dictionary, relating to lexicography (the writing of a dictionary).

  2. 2

    Relating to alphabetical order or a generalization thereof.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Lexicographic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense like a dictionary, relating to lexicography:

LanguageWords
Frenchlexicographique
Germanlexikografisch
Portugueselexicográfico
Spanishlexicográfico

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.

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