Category:Old English terms by usage

Old English terms categorized by the manner and context in which they are used by speakers.

• Category:Old English dialectal terms: Old English terms that are not used in standard language but only in dialects.
• Category:Old English ecclesiastical terms: Old English terms used only by religious figures.
• Category:Old English hapax legomena: Old English terms that are attested only once in the entire corpus.
• Category:Old English higher register terms: Old English terms belonging to a higher linguistic register, such as literary terms; such terms are somewhat less common or known.
• Category:Old English nonstandard terms: Old English terms that are considered improper, incorrect or commonly misused.
• Category:Old English poetic terms: Old English terms whose usage is typically restricted to works of poetry.
• Category:Old English rare terms: Old English terms that are rare in general use, for whatever reason.
• Category:Old English terms with archaic senses: Old English terms that are no longer in general use but still encountered in older literature and still sometimes used for special effect.
• Category:Old English terms with historical senses: Old English terms with senses that refer to things or concepts mainly known for their historical value.
• Category:Old English terms with obsolete senses: Old English terms that are no longer in current use, but found in older texts.
• Category:Old English terms with rare senses: Old English rarely used terms or terms with rarely used senses.
• Category:Old English terms with uncertain meaning: Old English terms whose meaning is unknown or disputed.
• Category:Old English terms with uncommon senses: Old English uncommonly used terms or terms with uncommonly used senses.
• Category:Old English uncommon terms: Old English uncommonly used terms.
• Category:Old English vulgarities: Old English terms whose tone (rather than the meaning) is offensive to polite company.