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Modern English → Old English

Old English word for tickle

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

  1. 1

    tinclian

    score 17

    verb · weak class 2 · 15 inflected forms

    tickle — to tickle

    • appears in the definition
    • listed as an English descendant
    • has a full inflection table
    • verb: derivation noise is possible
    Paradigm summary
    first-person singular present indicative tincliġe
    first-person singular past indicative tinclode
    second-person singular present indicative tinclast
    second-person singular past indicative tinclodest
    third-person singular present indicative tinclaþ
    third-person singular past indicative tinclode
  2. 2

    citelian

    score 8

    verb · weak class 2 · 15 inflected forms

    tickle — to tickle

    • appears in the definition
    • has a full inflection table
    • verb: derivation noise is possible
    Paradigm summary
    first-person singular present indicative citeliġe
    first-person singular past indicative citelode
    second-person singular present indicative citelast
    second-person singular past indicative citelodest
    third-person singular present indicative citelaþ
    third-person singular past indicative citelode

How this ranking works

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

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