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Old English word for cord

6 headwords match “cord”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The 6 strongest follow; sada ranks first.

  1. 1

    sada

    score 15

    noun, masculine · weak · 4 inflected forms

    cord — cord, halter, snare

    • opens the headword's definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular sāda
    genitive singular sādan
    dative singular sādan
    accusative singular sādan
    nominative plural sādan
    genitive plural sādena
  2. 2

    sima

    score 15

    noun, masculine · weak · 4 inflected forms

    cord — cord, rope

    • opens the headword's definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular sīma
    genitive singular sīman
    dative singular sīman
    accusative singular sīman
    nominative plural sīman
    genitive plural sīmena
  3. 3

    teag

    score 13

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

    cord — cord, band; thong; fetter

    • opens the headword's definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular tēag
    genitive singular tēage
    dative singular tēage
    accusative singular tēage
    nominative plural tēaga, tēage
    genitive plural tēaga
  4. 4

    sal

    score 11

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

    cord — rope, cord, rein

    • appears in the definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular sāl
    genitive singular sāles
    dative singular sāle
    accusative singular sāl
    nominative plural sālas
    genitive plural sāla
  5. 5

    streng

    score 11

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

    cord — string, rope, cord

    • appears in the definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular strenġ
    genitive singular strenġes
    dative singular strenġe
    accusative singular strenġ
    nominative plural strenġas
    genitive plural strenġa
  6. 6

    racca

    score 6

    noun, masculine

    cord — a cord forming part of a ship's rigging

    • appears in the definition

How this ranking works

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