A lexical database for contemporary french on internet: Lexique

We present a new lexical database of French, named Lexique. Based on a corp us of texts written since 1950 which contained 31 million words, Lexique yi elds 130 000 entries including the inflected forms of verbs, nouns and adje ctives. Each entry provides several kinds of information including frequenc y, gender, number, phonological form, graphemic and phonemic unicity points . Several tables give additional statistics such as the frequencies of vari ous units : letters, bigrams, trigrams, phonemes and syllables. The databas e is available for free on the Internet.