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Old English word for complaint

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

  1. 1

    ceorung

    score 15

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

    complaint — complaint, murmuring

    • opens the headword's definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular ċeorung
    genitive singular ċeorunge
    dative singular ċeorunge
    accusative singular ċeorunge
    nominative plural ċeorunga, ċeorunge
    genitive plural ċeorunga
  2. 2

    inca

    score 4

    noun, masculine · weak · 4 inflected forms

    complaint — doubt, uncertainty, question, suspicion, fear

    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular inca
    genitive singular incan
    dative singular incan
    accusative singular incan
    nominative plural incan
    genitive plural incena

How this ranking works

Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “complaint” 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 “complaint”, or an inflected form rather than a headword. Look up the form directly — the entry page marks the grammatical case.

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