lexème
French, noun/lɛk.sɛm/
lexème is spelled L-E-X-È-M-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 22 million words in written French, the 152,479th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lexème is a French masculine noun meaning “lexeme” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Unité minimale de sens et de forme”.
What does lexème mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinelexeme
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Unité minimale de sens et de forme. 2. Morphème lexical, qui appartient à une liste non finie des mots de la langue. 3. Représentation abstraite d’un mot englobant l’ensemble de ses réalisations. 4. Occurrence unique d’une suite continue de caractères.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of lexème
- lexèmes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce lexème?
- /lɛk.sɛm/
- \lɛk.sɛm\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to lexème
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is lexème in French?
lexème appears about once in every 22 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).