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Modern English → Old English

Old English word for cottage

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

  1. 1

    cot

    score 15

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

    cottage — cottage

    • opens the headword's definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular cot
    genitive singular cotes
    dative singular cote
    accusative singular cot
    nominative plural cotu
    genitive plural cota
  2. 2

    flet

    score 8

    noun, neuter · strong a-stem · 9 inflected forms

    cottage — the floor, ground

    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular flet
    genitive singular fletes
    dative singular flete
    accusative singular flet
    nominative plural flet
    genitive plural fleta
  3. 3

    flett

    score 8

    noun, neuter · strong a-stem · 5 inflected forms

    cottage — the floor, ground

    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular flett
    genitive singular flettes
    dative singular flette
    accusative singular flett
    nominative plural flett
    genitive plural fletta

How this ranking works

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