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Modern English → Old English

Old English word for filthy

3 headwords match “filthy”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The five strongest follow; adeliht ranks first.

  1. 1

    adeliht

    score 15

    adjective · 10 inflected forms

    filthy — filthy, dirty

    • opens the headword's definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    strong nominative singular masculine adeliht
    strong nominative singular feminine adeliht
    strong nominative singular neuter adeliht
    strong accusative singular masculine adelihtne
    strong accusative singular feminine adelihte
    strong accusative singular neuter adeliht
  2. 2

    fracoþ

    score 9

    adjective · 11 inflected forms

    filthy — vile, filthy, unseemly, abominable

    • appears in the definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    strong nominative singular masculine fracoþ
    strong nominative singular feminine fracoþ
    strong nominative singular neuter fracoþ
    strong accusative singular masculine fracoþne
    strong accusative singular feminine fracoþe
    strong accusative singular neuter fracoþ
  3. 3

    adela

    score 8

    noun, masculine · weak · 4 inflected forms

    filthy — filth

    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular adela
    genitive singular adelan
    dative singular adelan
    accusative singular adelan
    nominative plural adelan
    genitive plural adelena

How this ranking works

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