Lexeme

Definition: Lexeme

Lexeme

Noun

1. A minimal unit (as a word or stem) in the lexicon of a language; `go' and `went' and `gone' and `going' are all members of the English lexeme `go'.

Specialty Definitions: Lexeme

Domain	Definitions
Computing	Lexeme A minimal lexical unit of a language. Lexical analysis converts strings in a language into a list of lexemes. For a programming language these word-like pieces would include keywords, identifiers, literals and punctutation. The lexemes are then passed to the parser for syntactic analysis. (1996-04-06). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
Language	A word or root that is an item of vocabulary abstracted from sentence words. Source: European Union. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Lexeme

A lexeme is a unit of linguistic analysis. It belongs to a particular syntactic category and has a particular meaning ( semantic value). Lexemes may be simple words, phrasal and compound words and shortened forms. A lexicon consists of lexemes.

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Lexicography

Commercial Usage: Lexeme

Domain	Title
Books	On the Separation of Derivation from Morphology: Toward a Lexeme Morpheme/86101 (reference) (more book examples)
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Usage Frequency: Lexeme

"Lexeme" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Lexeme" is used about 32 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Lexeme

Modern Translations: Lexeme

Language		Translations for "lexeme"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		词� (morpheme). (various references)

Danish		lexem, leksem. (various references)

Dutch		lexeem. (various references)

Finnish		lekseemi. (various references)

French		lexème. (various references)

German		Lexem. (various references)

Greek		λέξημα. (various references)

Italian		lessema. (various references)

Pig Latin		exemelay

Romanian		lexem. (various references)

Russian		лексема. (various references)

Spanish		lexema. (various references)

Swedish		lexem. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations & Misspellings: Lexeme

Derivations
	Words beginning with "lexeme": lexemes. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Lexeme" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: leema, lexe, lexem, lexen, lexie, lexime, lexomat, Loedemel, Mexome. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Anagrams: Lexeme

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-e-l-m-x"
	-1 letter: melee.
	-3 letters: eel, elm, eme, lee, lex, mel.
	-4 letters: el, em, ex, me.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-e-l-m-x"
	+1 letter: lexemes.
	+3 letters: extremely.
	+5 letters: excremental, exemplified, exemplifies, metroplexes.
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