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Old English word for criminal

5 headwords match “criminal”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The five strongest follow; wearg ranks first.

  1. 1

    wearg

    score 15

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

    criminal — criminal, reprobate, felon

    • opens the headword's definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular wearg
    genitive singular wearges
    dative singular wearge
    accusative singular wearg
    nominative plural weargas
    genitive plural wearga
  2. 2

    fah

    score 11

    adjective · 22 inflected forms

    criminal — guilty; criminal

    • appears in the definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    strong nominative singular masculine fāh
    strong nominative singular feminine fā
    strong nominative singular neuter fāh
    strong accusative singular masculine fāne, fānne
    strong accusative singular feminine fā
    strong accusative singular neuter fāh
  3. 3

    ræpling

    score 9

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

    criminal — one bound; captive, prisoner, criminal

    • appears in the definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular rǣpling
    genitive singular rǣplinges
    dative singular rǣplinge
    accusative singular rǣpling
    nominative plural rǣplingas
    genitive plural rǣplinga
  4. 4

    eofot

    score 8

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

    criminal — sin, crime

    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular eofot
    genitive singular eofotes
    dative singular eofote
    accusative singular eofot
    nominative plural eofot
    genitive plural eofota
  5. 5

    fracuþ

    score 8

    adjective

    criminal — wicked, criminal

    • 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 “criminal” 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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