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Modern English → Old English

Old English word for doubtful

4 headwords match “doubtful”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The five strongest follow; tweonol ranks first.

  1. 1

    tweonol

    score 15

    adjective · 20 inflected forms

    doubtful — doubtful

    • opens the headword's definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    strong nominative singular masculine twēonol
    strong nominative singular feminine twēonolu, twēonlu, twēonolo, twēonlo
    strong nominative singular neuter twēonol
    strong accusative singular masculine twēonolne
    strong accusative singular feminine twēonole, twēonle
    strong accusative singular neuter twēonol
  2. 2

    twifeald

    score 8

    adjective · 10 inflected forms

    doubtful — double

    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    strong nominative singular masculine twifeald
    strong nominative singular feminine twifeald
    strong nominative singular neuter twifeald
    strong accusative singular masculine twifealdne
    strong accusative singular feminine twifealde
    strong accusative singular neuter twifeald
  3. 3

    fæderrice

    score 7

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

    doubtful — a doubtful word of vague meaning; see below

    • appears in the definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular fæderrīċe
    genitive singular fæderrīċes
    dative singular fæderrīċe
    accusative singular fæderrīċe
    nominative plural fæderrīċu
    genitive plural fæderrīċa
  4. 4

    getweonian

    score 3

    verb

    doubtful — to seem doubtful, be doubtful

    • appears in the definition
    • verb: derivation noise is possible

How this ranking works

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