The Lexema API
Look up any Italian word, in any form, and get its lemma, meanings, forms and examples as JSON.
GET https://api.lexema.fyi/v1/lookup?q=andavano
X-API-Key: lx_live_••••••••
{
"word": "andare", "pos_title": "Verbo",
"match": { "surface": "andavano", "tense": "imperfetto", "person": "loro" },
"definitions": [{ "definition": "muoversi da un luogo verso un altro luogo" }]
}Any form, one call
andavano → andare, with its mood, tense and person.
Only what you need
Filter by part of speech, pick fields, narrow a conjugation.
Close matches
A typo or a missing accent returns what it probably was.
Endpoints
- GET /v1/lookupEverything about a word
- GET /v1/lemmatizeA form's lemma and grammar
- GET /v1/existsWhether a word is in the dictionary
- GET /v1/inflectA lemma's form for a mood, tense and person
- GET /v1/suggestWords that begin with a prefix
- GET /v1/nearbyDid you mean
- GET /v1/randomOne random headword
- POST /v1/lookup/batchUp to 200 words at once