Modern English → Old English
Old English word for well
10 headwords match “well”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The 10 strongest follow; wel ranks first.
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well — well
- opens the headword's definition
- listed as an English descendant
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well — spring; fountain
- listed as an English descendant
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular wiell genitive singular wielles, wielle dative singular wielle accusative singular wiell, wielle nominative plural wiellas, wiella, wielle genitive plural wiella -
well — fountain, spring
- listed as an English descendant
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular wielle genitive singular wielles, wiellan dative singular wielle, wiellan accusative singular wielle, wiellan nominative plural wiellas, wiellan genitive plural wiella, wiellena -
well — well, rightly
- opens the headword's definition
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well — well, good; abundantly; very, exceedingly; every (added to nouns, verbs, adjectives and pr
- opens the headword's definition
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well — well worship (the worship of a well or fountain that is characterized by tying cloth to tr
- opens the headword's definition
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well — depression, pit, well; pool
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular dympel genitive singular dympeles dative singular dympele accusative singular dympel nominative plural dympelas genitive plural dympela -
well — to boil
- listed as an English descendant
- has a full inflection table
- verb: derivation noise is possible
Paradigm summary first-person singular present indicative wielle first-person singular past indicative wielde second-person singular present indicative wiellest, wielst second-person singular past indicative wieldest third-person singular present indicative wielleþ, wielþ third-person singular past indicative wielde -
well — very, well
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary strong nominative singular masculine ful strong nominative singular feminine ful strong nominative singular neuter ful strong accusative singular masculine fulne strong accusative singular feminine fulle strong accusative singular neuter ful -
well — truly, well, pleasantly
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary strong nominative singular masculine fǣle strong nominative singular feminine fǣlu, fǣlo strong nominative singular neuter fǣle strong accusative singular masculine fǣlne strong accusative singular feminine fǣle strong accusative singular neuter fǣle
How this ranking works
Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “well” 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 “well”, or an inflected form rather than a headword. Look up the form directly — the entry page marks the grammatical case.
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