Modern English → Old English
Old English word for despair
3 headwords match “despair”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The five strongest follow; ormodnes ranks first.
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despair — despair
- opens the headword's definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular ormōdnes genitive singular ormōdnesse dative singular ormōdnesse accusative singular ormōdnesse nominative plural ormōdnessa, ormōdnesse genitive plural ormōdnessa -
despair — desperate, in despair
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary strong nominative singular masculine ormōd strong nominative singular feminine ormōd strong nominative singular neuter ormōd strong accusative singular masculine ormōdne strong accusative singular feminine ormōde strong accusative singular neuter ormōd -
despair — to despair of, be without hope of
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
- verb: derivation noise is possible
Paradigm summary first-person singular present indicative ortrīewiġe first-person singular past indicative ortrīewode second-person singular present indicative ortrīewast second-person singular past indicative ortrīewodest third-person singular present indicative ortrīewaþ third-person singular past indicative ortrīewode
How this ranking works
Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “despair” 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 “despair”, or an inflected form rather than a headword. Look up the form directly — the entry page marks the grammatical case.
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