Modern English → Old English
Old English word for evil
5 headwords match “evil”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The five strongest follow; yfel ranks first.
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evil — bad
- listed as an English descendant
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary strong nominative singular masculine yfel strong nominative singular feminine yfel strong nominative singular neuter yfel strong accusative singular masculine yfelne strong accusative singular feminine yfele strong accusative singular neuter yfel -
evil — evil; base, corrupt
- opens the headword's definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary strong nominative singular masculine lysu, lyso strong nominative singular feminine lysu, lyso strong nominative singular neuter lysu, lyso strong accusative singular masculine lysone strong accusative singular feminine lyswe strong accusative singular neuter lysu, lyso -
evil — evil teaching
- opens the headword's definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular unlār genitive singular unlāre dative singular unlāre accusative singular unlāre nominative plural unlāra, unlāre genitive plural unlāra -
evil — evil, wicked
- opens the headword's definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary strong nominative singular masculine unsǣle strong nominative singular feminine unsǣlu, unsǣlo strong nominative singular neuter unsǣle strong accusative singular masculine unsǣlne strong accusative singular feminine unsǣle strong accusative singular neuter unsǣle -
evil — evil, wicked
- opens the headword's definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary strong nominative singular masculine wōhsum strong nominative singular feminine wōhsumu, wōhsumo strong nominative singular neuter wōhsum strong accusative singular masculine wōhsumne strong accusative singular feminine wōhsume strong accusative singular neuter wōhsum
How this ranking works
Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “evil” 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 “evil”, or an inflected form rather than a headword. Look up the form directly — the entry page marks the grammatical case.
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