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Modern English → Old English

Old English word for hog

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

  1. 1

    hogg

    score 22

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

    hog — hog, especially a castrated male (family Suidae)

    • opens the headword's definition
    • listed as an English descendant
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular hogg
    genitive singular hogges
    dative singular hogge
    accusative singular hogg
    nominative plural hoggas
    genitive plural hogga
  2. 2

    for

    score 15

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

    hog — hog, pig

    • opens the headword's definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular fōr
    genitive singular fōre
    dative singular fōre
    accusative singular fōre
    nominative plural fōra, fōre
    genitive plural fōra
  3. 3

    cammoc

    score 10

    noun, feminine / neuter

    hog — hog fennel

    • 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 “hog” 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 “hog”, or an inflected form rather than a headword. Look up the form directly — the entry page marks the grammatical case.

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