old english
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.08 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
The ancestor language of Modern English, also called Anglo-Saxon, spoken in most of Britain from about 400 to 1100.
name
Archaic English (Early Modern English) or Middle English speech or writing, or an imitation of this: "old" English.
Colloquial
name
The form of black letter used by 16th-century English printers.
name
A historical ethnic group in Ireland descended from Norman invaders from Britain from the 12th century to the 17th century.
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