Modern English → Old English
Old English word for four
5 headwords match “four”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The five strongest follow; feower ranks first.
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four — four
- opens the headword's definition
- listed as an English descendant
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative masculine fēowere, fēowre nominative feminine fēowere, fēoweru, fēowre, fēowru accusative feminine fēowere, fēoweru, fēowre, fēowru genitive fēowera, fēowra dative fēowerum, fēowrum -
four — four year(s) old
- opens the headword's definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary strong nominative singular masculine fēowerwintre strong nominative singular feminine fēowerwintru, fēowerwintro strong nominative singular neuter fēowerwintre strong accusative singular masculine fēowerwinterne strong accusative singular feminine fēowerwintre strong accusative singular neuter fēowerwintre -
four — four, quadri-, tetra-
- opens the headword's definition
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four — four hundred
- opens the headword's definition
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four — time in general
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular tīd genitive singular tīde dative singular tīde accusative singular tīd, tīde nominative plural tīde, tīda genitive plural tīda
How this ranking works
Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “four” 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 “four”, or an inflected form rather than a headword. Look up the form directly — the entry page marks the grammatical case.
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