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Modern English → Old English

Old English word for chronicler

2 headwords match “chronicler”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The five strongest follow; tidwritere ranks first.

  1. 1

    tidwritere

    score 15

    noun, masculine · strong ja-stem · 5 inflected forms

    chronicler — chronicler, annalist

    • opens the headword's definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular tīdwrītere
    genitive singular tīdwrīteres
    dative singular tīdwrītere
    accusative singular tīdwrītere
    nominative plural tīdwrīteras
    genitive plural tīdwrītera
  2. 2

    cranicwritere

    score 11

    noun, masculine · strong ja-stem · 5 inflected forms

    chronicler — chronographer, chronicler

    • appears in the definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular cranicwrītere
    genitive singular cranicwrīteres
    dative singular cranicwrītere
    accusative singular cranicwrītere
    nominative plural cranicwrīteras
    genitive plural cranicwrītera

How this ranking works

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

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