---
title: "Upsert a Lexeme"
method: PUT
path: "/lexemes"
tags: ["Lexeme"]
---

# Upsert a Lexeme

`PUT /lexemes`

## Request body

- Document — A document in the DLx database
  - `id` string
  - `type` string, required

## Response `201`

Upsert successful.

## Changes

- **2016-12-01** `13f179dcd92d` — 3 warning
  - the optional response header `Last-Modified` removed for the status `201`
  - deleted the `header` request parameter `ifMatch`
  - deleted the `query` request parameter `languageID`

[Change history](https://skmtc.dev/digitallinguistics/apis/dlx/changes/lexemes/put.md)

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[API](https://skmtc.dev/digitallinguistics/apis/dlx.md) · [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/digitallinguistics/apis/dlx/llms.txt) · [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc-service-production.skmtc.workers.dev/v1/apis/digitallinguistics/dlx/revisions/de2ae6fdff23/schema)