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Modern English → Old English

Old English word for cheshire

5 headwords match “cheshire”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The five strongest follow; Ceasterscir ranks first.

  1. 1

    Ceasterscir

    score 17

    proper noun, feminine · strong ō-stem · 2 inflected forms

    cheshire — Cheshire (a historical county of England)

    • opens the headword's definition
    • listed as an English descendant
    • has a full inflection table
    • proper noun
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular Ċeastersċir
    genitive singular Ċeastersċire
    dative singular Ċeastersċire
    accusative singular Ċeastersċire
  2. 2

    Legaceasterscir

    score 8

    proper noun, feminine · strong ō-stem · 2 inflected forms

    cheshire — Cheshire (a county in northwest England)

    • opens the headword's definition
    • has a full inflection table
    • proper noun
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular Legaċeastersċīr
    genitive singular Legaċeastersċīre
    dative singular Legaċeastersċīre
    accusative singular Legaċeastersċīre
  3. 3

    Ceaster

    score 4

    proper noun, masculine · strong ō-stem · 2 inflected forms

    cheshire — Chester (a city in Cheshire, England)

    • appears in the definition
    • has a full inflection table
    • proper noun
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular Ċeaster
    genitive singular Ċeastre
    dative singular Ċeastre
    accusative singular Ċeastre
  4. 4

    Legaceaster

    score 4

    proper noun, feminine · strong ō-stem · 2 inflected forms

    cheshire — Chester (a city, the county town of Cheshire, in northwest England)

    • appears in the definition
    • has a full inflection table
    • proper noun
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular Legaċeaster
    genitive singular Legaċeastre
    dative singular Legaċeastre
    accusative singular Legaċeastre
  5. 5

    Maclesfeld

    score 1

    proper noun, masculine

    cheshire — Macclesfield (a market town and civil parish of Cheshire East, Cheshire, England)

    • appears in the definition
    • proper noun

How this ranking works

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