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Old English word for doubt

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

  1. 1

    tweo

    score 15

    noun, masculine · weak · 5 inflected forms

    doubt — doubt

    • opens the headword's definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular twēo
    genitive singular twēon
    dative singular twēon
    accusative singular twēon
    nominative plural twēon
    genitive plural twēona
  2. 2

    tweon

    score 15

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

    doubt — doubt

    • opens the headword's definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular twēon
    genitive singular twēones
    dative singular twēone
    accusative singular twēon
    nominative plural twēonas
    genitive plural twēona
  3. 3

    inca

    score 13

    noun, masculine · weak · 4 inflected forms

    doubt — doubt, uncertainty, question, suspicion, fear

    • opens the headword's definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular inca
    genitive singular incan
    dative singular incan
    accusative singular incan
    nominative plural incan
    genitive plural incena
  4. 4

    tweonung

    score 12

    noun, feminine · strong ō-stem

    doubt — doubt, uncertainty, hesitation

    • opens the headword's definition
  5. 5

    gewand

    score 9

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

    doubt — concern, hesitation, doubt, fear

    • appears in the definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular ġewand
    genitive singular ġewandes
    dative singular ġewande
    accusative singular ġewand
    nominative plural ġewand
    genitive plural ġewanda

How this ranking works

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