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Modern English → Old English

Old English word for kitchen

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

  1. 1

    cycene

    score 24

    noun, feminine · weak n-stem · 4 inflected forms

    kitchen — kitchen

    • opens the headword's definition
    • listed as an English descendant
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular cyċene
    genitive singular cyċenan
    dative singular cyċenan
    accusative singular cyċenan
    nominative plural cyċenan
    genitive plural cyċenena
  2. 2

    leactun

    score 9

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

    kitchen — herb garden, kitchen garden

    • appears in the definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular lēactūn
    genitive singular lēactūnes
    dative singular lēactūne
    accusative singular lēactūn
    nominative plural lēactūnas
    genitive plural lēactūna
  3. 3

    cycenþegnung

    score 9

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

    kitchen — service in a kitchen

    • appears in the definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular cyċenþeġnung
    genitive singular cyċenþeġnunge
    dative singular cyċenþeġnunge
    accusative singular cyċenþeġnunge
    nominative plural cyċenþeġnunga, cyċenþeġnunge
    genitive plural cyċenþeġnunga
  4. 4

    wyrtgeard

    score 7

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

    kitchen — a vegetable garden, kitchen garden

    • appears in the definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular wyrtġeard
    genitive singular wyrtġeardes
    dative singular wyrtġearde
    accusative singular wyrtġeard
    nominative plural wyrtġeardas
    genitive plural wyrtġearda

How this ranking works

Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “kitchen” 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 “kitchen”, or an inflected form rather than a headword. Look up the form directly — the entry page marks the grammatical case.

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