Modern English → Old English
Old English word for world
5 headwords match “world”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The five strongest follow; weorold ranks first.
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world — world
- opens the headword's definition
- listed as an English descendant
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular weorold genitive singular weorolde dative singular weorolde accusative singular weorold, weorolde nominative plural weorolde, weorolda genitive plural weorolda -
world — world, earth
- opens the headword's definition
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world — the world
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular middanġeard genitive singular middanġeardes dative singular middanġearde accusative singular middanġeard -
world — the world; creation
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular forþġesċeaft genitive singular forþġesċeafte dative singular forþġesċeafte accusative singular forþġesċeaft, forþġesċeafte nominative plural forþġesċeafte, forþġesċeafta genitive plural forþġesċeafta -
world — the way of the world
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular weoroldrǣden genitive singular weoroldrǣdenne dative singular weoroldrǣdenne accusative singular weoroldrǣdenne nominative plural weoroldrǣdenna, weoroldrǣdenne genitive plural weoroldrǣdenna
How this ranking works
Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “world” 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 “world”, or an inflected form rather than a headword. Look up the form directly — the entry page marks the grammatical case.
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