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Modern English → Old English

Old English word for rainbow

2 headwords match “rainbow”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The five strongest follow; regnboga ranks first.

  1. 1

    regnboga

    score 24

    noun, masculine · weak · 4 inflected forms

    rainbow — rainbow

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

    scurboga

    score 15

    noun, masculine · weak · 4 inflected forms

    rainbow — rainbow

    • opens the headword's definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular sċūrboga
    genitive singular sċūrbogan
    dative singular sċūrbogan
    accusative singular sċūrbogan
    nominative plural sċūrbogan
    genitive plural sċūrbogena

How this ranking works

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

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