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Old English word for week

5 headwords match “week”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The five strongest follow; wice ranks first.

  1. 1

    wice

    score 24

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

    week — week

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

    wicdæg

    score 9

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

    week — day of the week

    • appears in the definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular wicdæġ
    genitive singular wicdæġes
    dative singular wicdæġe
    accusative singular wicdæġ
    nominative plural wicdagas
    genitive plural wicdaga
  3. 3

    sæternesdæg

    score 9

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

    week — Saturday; the seventh day of the week

    • appears in the definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular sæternesdæġ
    genitive singular sæternesdæġes
    dative singular sæternesdæġe
    accusative singular sæternesdæġ
    nominative plural sæternesdagas
    genitive plural sæternesdaga
  4. 4

    seofeniht

    score 8

    noun, feminine

    week — a week

    • appears in the definition
  5. 5

    cieswice

    score 7

    noun, masculine · weak · 4 inflected forms

    week — Cheese Week; the last week of eating cheese before Lent

    • appears in the definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular ċīeswice
    genitive singular ċīeswican
    dative singular ċīeswican
    accusative singular ċīeswican
    nominative plural ċīeswican
    genitive plural ċīeswicena

How this ranking works

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

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