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Modern English → Old English

Old English word for guidance

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

  1. 1

    wissung

    score 15

    noun, feminine · strong ō-stem · 2 inflected forms

    guidance — guidance, direction, teaching

    • opens the headword's definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular wissung
    genitive singular wissunge
    dative singular wissunge
    accusative singular wissunge
  2. 2

    steor

    score 11

    noun, feminine · strong ō-stem · 6 inflected forms

    guidance — steering, direction, guidance

    • appears in the definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular stēor
    genitive singular stēore
    dative singular stēore
    accusative singular stēore
    nominative plural stēora, stēore
    genitive plural stēora
  3. 3

    rihtung

    score 11

    noun, feminine · strong ō-stem · 4 inflected forms

    guidance — direction, guidance

    • appears in the definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular rihtung
    genitive singular rihtunge
    dative singular rihtunge
    accusative singular rihtunge
    nominative plural rihtunga, rihtunge
    genitive plural rihtunga
  4. 4

    ladteowdom

    score 8

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

    guidance — leadership

    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular lādtēowdōm
    genitive singular lādtēowdōmes
    dative singular lādtēowdōme
    accusative singular lādtēowdōm
    nominative plural lādtēowdōmas
    genitive plural lādtēowdōma
  5. 5

    ræden

    score 6

    noun, feminine · strong ō-stem · 4 inflected forms

    guidance — condition, state; terms, stipulation

    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular rǣden
    genitive singular rǣdenne
    dative singular rǣdenne
    accusative singular rǣdenne
    nominative plural rǣdenna, rǣdenne
    genitive plural rǣdenna

How this ranking works

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