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Modern English → Old English

Old English word for piper

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

  1. 1

    pipere

    score 24

    noun, masculine · strong ja-stem · 5 inflected forms

    piper — piper

    • opens the headword's definition
    • listed as an English descendant
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular pīpere
    genitive singular pīperes
    dative singular pīpere
    accusative singular pīpere
    nominative plural pīperas
    genitive plural pīpera
  2. 2

    hwistlere

    score 15

    noun, masculine · strong ja-stem · 5 inflected forms

    piper — piper, fluter, flautist

    • opens the headword's definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular hwistlere
    genitive singular hwistleres
    dative singular hwistlere
    accusative singular hwistlere
    nominative plural hwistleras
    genitive plural hwistlera
  3. 3

    pipor

    score 4

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

    piper — pepper, in the following senses:

    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular pipor
    genitive singular pipores
    dative singular pipore
    accusative singular pipor

How this ranking works

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

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