lex
The verdict
“lex” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #19,582 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #19,582
- frequency rank, French
- 3
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Loi écrite.
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) |
Where “lex” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for lex is 3 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #19,582 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
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.
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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Using “lex”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is L-E-X - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “Lu” - see the side-by-side comparison. lex vs Lu
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.