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Modern English → Old English

Old English word for castrated

3 headwords match “castrated”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The five strongest follow; bearg ranks first.

  1. 1

    bearg

    score 15

    noun, masculine · strong a-stem · 6 inflected forms

    castrated — castrated boar, barrow

    • opens the headword's definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular bearg
    genitive singular bearges
    dative singular bearge
    accusative singular bearg
    nominative plural beargas
    genitive plural bearga
  2. 2

    hogg

    score 7

    noun, masculine · strong a-stem · 6 inflected forms

    castrated — hog, especially a castrated male (family Suidae)

    • appears in the definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular hogg
    genitive singular hogges
    dative singular hogge
    accusative singular hogg
    nominative plural hoggas
    genitive plural hogga
  3. 3

    scritta

    score 6

    noun, masculine

    castrated — effeminate or castrated man

    • appears in the definition

How this ranking works

Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “castrated” 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.

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