lexème
\lɛk.sɛm\
The verdict
“lexème” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Unité minimale de sens et de forme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lexeme · lexème · French
lexème · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "L" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lexème |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɛk.sɛm\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lexème » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lexème is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \lɛk.sɛm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for lexème, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is lexème, spelled L-E-X-È-M-E.
Definition
- 1Unité minimale de sens et de forme.
- 2Morphème lexical, qui appartient à une liste non finie des mots de la langue.
- 3Représentation abstraite d’un mot englobant l’ensemble de ses réalisations.
- 4Occurrence unique d’une suite continue de caractères.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lexème appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’origine onomatopéique d’un lexème est une question diachronique, sans pertinence en tant que telle pour la sémantique de la parole : ainsi, il n’est pas fondamental pour nous de trancher parmi les nombreux cas qui peuvent faire débats (quid de gong, flaque, grogner, grommeler, siffler, claquer, vrombir… ?)
Un lexème verbal est constitué d’un squelette consonantique, d’un schème tonal et d’un support vocalique neutre.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.