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Modern English → Old English

Old English word for coolness

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

  1. 1

    colnes

    score 24

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

    coolness — coolness

    • opens the headword's definition
    • listed as an English descendant
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular cōlnes
    genitive singular cōlnesse
    dative singular cōlnesse
    accusative singular cōlnesse
    nominative plural cōlnessa, cōlnesse
    genitive plural cōlnessa
  2. 2

    gecelnes

    score 15

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

    coolness — coolness

    • opens the headword's definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular ġecēlnes
    genitive singular ġecēlnesse
    dative singular ġecēlnesse
    accusative singular ġecēlnesse

How this ranking works

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

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