lex
The verdict
“lex” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #19,582) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #19,582
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Loi écrite.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lex · lex · French
lex · rank #19,582 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,582
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH left
Nearest frequency peer: left (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « lex »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Laporte
Laporte
80,422 corpus weight
- lasser
lasser
80,421 corpus weight
- left
left
80,420 corpus weight
- lex
lex
80,419 corpus weight
- locke
locke
80,418 corpus weight
- maghrébins
maghrébins
80,417 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « lex » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lex |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #19,582 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « lex »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for lex is neighbouring look-alikes ("Lu", "Li", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #19,582 among 2,567 “L” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for lex in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Lu", "Li", "LR", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is lex, spelled L-E-X.
Definition
- 1Loi écrite.
- 2Contrat, traité, pacte, convention, clauses, condition.
- 3Ce qui fait loi, ordre établi, règles (d’un art ou d’une science), préceptes, modèle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lex appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
legem rogare (ferre)
legem perferre
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "lex", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).