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Old English word for israel

4 headwords match “israel”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The 4 strongest follow; Israhel ranks first.

  1. 1

    Israhel

    score 10

    proper noun · strong a-stem · 6 inflected forms

    israel — Israel

    • opens the headword's definition
    • has a full inflection table
    • proper noun
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular Israhel
    genitive singular Israheles
    dative singular Israhele
    accusative singular Israhel
    nominative plural Israhelas
    genitive plural Israhela
  2. 2

    Syon

    score 9

    noun, masculine / neuter · strong a-stem · 3 inflected forms

    israel — Zion (a hill in West Jerusalem, in Israel, on which ancient Jerusalem was partly built; a

    • appears in the definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular Syon
    genitive singular Syones
    dative singular Syone
    accusative singular Syon
  3. 3

    Saul

    score 2

    proper noun, masculine · strong a-stem · 3 inflected forms

    israel — Saul (biblical king of Israel)

    • appears in the definition
    • has a full inflection table
    • proper noun
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular Saul
    genitive singular Saules
    dative singular Saule
    accusative singular Saul
  4. 4

    Nazareth

    score 1

    proper noun

    israel — Nazareth (an ancient city in modern northern Israel)

    • appears in the definition
    • proper noun

How this ranking works

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