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Lexique
Lexique provides online access to French lexical databases and tools, including Open Lexicon and a psycholinguistic megastudy list.
About Lexique
Lexique provides online search in French lexical databases, including Lexique 4 and Open Lexicon, with downloads of Lexique data. Lexique 4.00 covers 190,000 French word forms with frequency from a 316-million-word subtitle corpus, contextual diversity, phonological representations, associated lemmas, morphological structure, prevalence, and lexical decision data.
The site also lists Open Lexicon bases with measures such as age of acquisition, reading times, and concreteness, and tools including Unipseudo for pseudowords, Megalex, WorldLex, Lexique-Infra, and Diphones. It provides R and Python scripts and Shiny apps through GitHub, a French vocabulary test, and a user forum. Content is available in French and English.
Key features
- Online search in Lexique and Open Lexicon lexical databases
- Downloadable Lexique 4.10 French word-form database
- French vocabulary test estimating known words
- Unipseudo pseudoword generator
- R and Python scripts and Shiny apps for offline use
- WorldLex French frequencies for blogs, Twitter, newspapers
Best for: Researchers and students working with French lexical and psycholinguistic data.
Good for
- Lexique data distributed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license
- Includes frequency, phonology, lemmas, morphology, prevalence and lexical decision data for 190,000 forms
- Provides downloadable data with R and Python scripts and Shiny apps
Watch out for
- Online search covers only certain Open Lexicon bases, not all of them
Lexique at a glance
- Website
- lexique.org
- Category
- Research & Data › Open Data & Datasets
- Type
- Website
- Pricing
- Not confirmed. Check the site
- Platforms
- Web
- Open source
- Not stated
- Language
- French
- Last checked
- Oct 5, 2026 · Online when checked
- Listed
- Oct 5, 2026
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Lexique FAQ
What information does Lexique 4 provide?
Frequency from a 316-million-word subtitle corpus, contextual diversity, phonological representations, associated lemmas, morphological structure, prevalence, and lexical decision data for 190,000 French word forms.
Under what license is Lexique distributed?
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0.
What can users do through OpenLexicon GitHub?
Query the bases online, download them, and obtain R and Python scripts and Shiny apps to work with them online or offline.
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