Lexique 4 is online
After several years of work, a major new version of the French lexical database is now available on lexique.org.
What’s new
— 📚 316 million words (×6), drawn from 65,000+ subtitles
— 📈 +34% more words (≈160,000 forms)
— 🔤 Orthographic frequency
— 🌐 Contextual diversity (CD)
— 🧬 Detailed morphological structure
— ⏱️ Lexical decision times integrated (from the French Lexicon Project)
— 🖥️ New web interface: much faster search, sorting, exploration…
Result
📊 More precise data
🆕 More up-to-date
⚙️ Immediately usable for research and teaching