Modern English → Old English
Old English word for difficulty
5 headwords match “difficulty”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The five strongest follow; earfoþnes ranks first.
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difficulty — difficulty
- opens the headword's definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular earfoþnes genitive singular earfoþnesse dative singular earfoþnesse accusative singular earfoþnesse nominative plural earfoþnessa, earfoþnesse genitive plural earfoþnessa -
difficulty — hinderance, obstacle, difficulty
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular wiern genitive singular wierne dative singular wierne accusative singular wierne nominative plural wierna, wierne genitive plural wierna -
difficulty — narrowness
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary strong nominative singular masculine nearu, nearo strong nominative singular feminine nearu, nearo strong nominative singular neuter nearu, nearo strong accusative singular masculine nearone strong accusative singular feminine nearwe strong accusative singular neuter nearu, nearo -
difficulty — with difficulty, hardly
- appears in the definition
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difficulty — barely, hardly
- has a full inflection table
- alternative form
Paradigm summary strong nominative singular masculine unēaþe strong nominative singular feminine unēaþu, unēaþo strong nominative singular neuter unēaþe strong accusative singular masculine unēaþne strong accusative singular feminine unēaþe strong accusative singular neuter unēaþe
How this ranking works
Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “difficulty” 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 “difficulty”, or an inflected form rather than a headword. Look up the form directly — the entry page marks the grammatical case.
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