Modern English → Old English
Old English word for word
5 headwords match “word”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The five strongest follow; word ranks first.
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word — word
- opens the headword's definition
- listed as an English descendant
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular word genitive singular wordes dative singular worde accusative singular word nominative plural word genitive plural worda -
word — a glorious word
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular wuldorword genitive singular wuldorwordes dative singular wuldorworde accusative singular wuldorword nominative plural wuldorword genitive plural wuldorworda -
word — a speech, word; saying, term, expression
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular ġecwide genitive singular ġecwides dative singular ġecwide accusative singular ġecwide nominative plural ġecwidas genitive plural ġecwida -
word — a true word, proverb
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular sōþword genitive singular sōþwordes dative singular sōþworde accusative singular sōþword nominative plural sōþword genitive plural sōþworda -
word — to become
- listed as an English descendant
- has a full inflection table
- verb: derivation noise is possible
Paradigm summary first-person singular present indicative weorþe first-person singular past indicative wearþ second-person singular present indicative wierst second-person singular past indicative wurde third-person singular present indicative wierþþ, wierþ third-person singular past indicative wearþ
How this ranking works
Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “word” 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 “word”, or an inflected form rather than a headword. Look up the form directly — the entry page marks the grammatical case.
Candidates derived from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0). Each entry links to its source page. · CC BY-SA 4.0 and attribution · CC BY-SA 4.0