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Modern English → Old English

Old English word for thickness

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

  1. 1

    þicnes

    score 24

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

    thickness — thickness, viscosity

    • opens the headword's definition
    • listed as an English descendant
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular þicnes
    genitive singular þicnesse
    dative singular þicnesse
    accusative singular þicnesse
    nominative plural þicnessa, þicnesse
    genitive plural þicnessa
  2. 2

    greatnes

    score 9

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

    thickness — greatness, bigness, thickness, coarseness of a material

    • appears in the definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular grēatnes
    genitive singular grēatnesse
    dative singular grēatnesse
    accusative singular grēatnesse
    nominative plural grēatnessa, grēatnesse
    genitive plural grēatnessa

How this ranking works

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