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Modern English → Old English

Old English word for club

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

  1. 1

    sagol

    score 15

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

    club — club, cudgel

    • opens the headword's definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular sāgol
    genitive singular sāgles
    dative singular sāgle
    accusative singular sāgol
    nominative plural sāglas
    genitive plural sāgla
  2. 2

    strælwyrt

    score 7

    noun, feminine · strong i-stem · 4 inflected forms

    club — a plant, possibly club moss

    • appears in the definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular strǣlwyrt
    genitive singular strǣlwyrte
    dative singular strǣlwyrte
    accusative singular strǣlwyrt, strǣlwyrte
    nominative plural strǣlwyrte, strǣlwyrta
    genitive plural strǣlwyrta
  3. 3

    batt

    score 5

    noun

    club — bat

How this ranking works

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