Modern English → Old English
Old English word for behead
3 headwords match “behead”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The five strongest follow; beheafdian ranks first.
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behead — to behead
- appears in the definition
- listed as an English descendant
- has a full inflection table
- verb: derivation noise is possible
Paradigm summary first-person singular present indicative behēafdiġe first-person singular past indicative behēafdode second-person singular present indicative behēafdast second-person singular past indicative behēafdodest third-person singular present indicative behēafdaþ third-person singular past indicative behēafdode -
behead — to behead
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
- verb: derivation noise is possible
Paradigm summary first-person singular present indicative hēafdiġe first-person singular past indicative hēafdode second-person singular present indicative hēafdast second-person singular past indicative hēafdodest third-person singular present indicative hēafdaþ third-person singular past indicative hēafdode -
behead — to becarve, cut off, cut or pare away; flay
- has a full inflection table
- verb: derivation noise is possible
Paradigm summary first-person singular present indicative beċeorfe first-person singular past indicative beċearf second-person singular present indicative beċierfst second-person singular past indicative becurfe third-person singular present indicative beċierfþ third-person singular past indicative beċearf
How this ranking works
Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “behead” gets the points below; the candidates are then sorted by total. The score is shown on each entry above so the order can be checked rather than trusted.
| The English word opens the headword's definition | +10 |
| It appears later in the first definition | +6 |
| It appears in any definition | +3 |
| It is in the headword's links | +2 |
| It is listed as an English descendant (etymological evidence) | +9 |
| The headword has an inflection table | +3 |
| Part of speech is a proper noun | −5 |
| Part of speech is a verb (-ian derivations are noisy) | −3 |
| The headword is an alternative form | −6 |
| The first definition is longer than three words | −2 |
A candidate has to be a real headword with its own entry: inflected forms and grammatical terminology (genitive, nominative, preterite, …) never appear here.
Not one of these?
The match may be a different sense of “behead”, or an inflected form rather than a headword. Look up the form directly — the entry page marks the grammatical case.
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