Modern English → Old English
Old English word for british
4 headwords match “british”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The five strongest follow; Brettisc ranks first.
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british — British
- opens the headword's definition
- listed as an English descendant
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary strong nominative singular masculine Brettisċ strong nominative singular feminine Brettisċ strong nominative singular neuter Brettisċ strong accusative singular masculine Brettisċne strong accusative singular feminine Brettisċe strong accusative singular neuter Brettisċ -
british — British, Welsh
- opens the headword's definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary strong nominative singular masculine Brettwīelisċ strong nominative singular feminine Brettwīelisċ strong nominative singular neuter Brettwīelisċ strong accusative singular masculine Brettwīelisċne strong accusative singular feminine Brettwīelisċe, Brettwīelsċe strong accusative singular neuter Brettwīelisċ -
british — British
- opens the headword's definition
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british — Briton, British person (especially someone Celtic)
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
- proper noun
Paradigm summary nominative plural Brytas genitive plural Bryta dative plural Brytum accusative plural Brytas
How this ranking works
Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “british” 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 “british”, or an inflected form rather than a headword. Look up the form directly — the entry page marks the grammatical case.
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