Your archetype
Old, short, Germanic. English before the Normans.
25% against a site median of 12.2% · +105%
Ancestry
Where your words came from, traced through 112 etymologies.
Family tree
205 words from 189 roots. 31 of your finds are another form of a word you already had.
- PILFERPILFER · PILFERS · PILFERED
- CANDLERCANDLER · CANDLERS
- CANTALOUPECANTALOUPE · CANTALOUPES
- GHOULGHOUL · GHOULS
- GLEAMGLEAMS · GLEAMED
- GRAPEVINEGRAPEVINE · GRAPEVINES
- GUESTGUEST · GUESTED
- GUMTREEGUMTREE · GUMTREES
Word class
Morphology
The pieces your words are built from.
-er 7-ful 6-en 3-ly 2
Phonetics
Counted from IPA, so this covers the 123 of your 205 words that have a pronunciation on file. Words without one are not counted here.
1.9avg syllables
Your territory
How many people have ever found each of your words.
- CREAKED2 finders, ever
- DECAFS2 finders, ever
- DRIERS2 finders, ever
- TABLETS2 finders, ever
- INSINUATED3 finders, ever
- JOLTS5 finders, ever
- PERFECTS5 finders, ever
- TRANSMEW5 finders, ever
- CREAMS6 finders, ever
- NICELY6 finders, ever
How far back it goes
Every traced word has a deepest named ancestor, and every ancestor language has a period. This is when those languages were spoken — not how old the words are. The notch on each bar is where everybody else sits.
Reconstructed21.6%+9.7
Ancient37.8%-9.9
Medieval25.7%+6.2
Modern14.9%-6
Everyone’s, side by side: the Word DNA of OUTLIER