Modern English → Old English
Old English word for exeter
3 headwords match “exeter”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The five strongest follow; Exanceaster ranks first.
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exeter — Exeter (a cathedral city in modern Devon, England)
- opens the headword's definition
- listed as an English descendant
- has a full inflection table
- proper noun
Paradigm summary nominative singular Exanċeaster genitive singular Exanċeastre dative singular Exanċeastre accusative singular Exanċeastre -
exeter — marsh frog
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular fenȳċe genitive singular fenȳċan, fenȳċean, fenȳċes dative singular fenȳċan, fenȳċean, fenȳċe accusative singular fenȳċan, fenȳċean, fenȳċe nominative plural fenȳċan, fenȳċean, fenȳċas, fenȳċeas genitive plural fenȳċena, fenȳċa, fenȳċea -
exeter — any crawling animal, especially
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular wyrm genitive singular wyrmes dative singular wyrme accusative singular wyrm nominative plural wyrmas genitive plural wyrma
How this ranking works
Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “exeter” 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 “exeter”, or an inflected form rather than a headword. Look up the form directly — the entry page marks the grammatical case.
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