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Old English word for fig

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

  1. 1

    fic

    score 18

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

    fig — a fig or fig tree

    • appears in the definition
    • listed as an English descendant
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular fīc
    genitive singular fīces
    dative singular fīce
    accusative singular fīc
    nominative plural fīcas
    genitive plural fīca
  2. 2

    ficæppel

    score 15

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

    fig — fig

    • opens the headword's definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular fīcæppel
    genitive singular fīcæpples
    dative singular fīcæpple
    accusative singular fīcæppel
    nominative plural fīcæpplas
    genitive plural fīcæppla
  3. 3

    ficbeam

    score 13

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

    fig — fig tree

    • opens the headword's definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular fīcbēam
    genitive singular fīcbēames
    dative singular fīcbēame
    accusative singular fīcbēam
    nominative plural fīcbēamas
    genitive plural fīcbēama
  4. 4

    fictreow

    score 13

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

    fig — fig tree

    • opens the headword's definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular fīctrēow
    genitive singular fīctrēowes
    dative singular fīctrēowe
    accusative singular fīctrēow
    nominative plural fīctrēowu
    genitive plural fīctrēowa
  5. 5

    ficleaf

    score 10

    noun, masculine

    fig — fig leaf

    • opens the headword's definition

How this ranking works

Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “fig” 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 “fig”, or an inflected form rather than a headword. Look up the form directly — the entry page marks the grammatical case.

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