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Back-formation

Quality:

Back-formation - linguistic process of creating a new word by removing apparent affixes or inflections from a preexisting word. Article “Back-formation” in English Wikipedia has 27 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 14 references and 7 sections.

This article has the best quality in Hungarian Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2025 the article “Back-formation” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Back-formation”, its content was written by 144 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 298 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 207 times in English Wikipedia and cited 510 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #2097 in September 2002
  • Global: #3430 in September 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #121038 in January 2008
  • Global: #179382 in January 2008

There are 17 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Hungarian (hu)
Elvonás (nyelvészet)
36.6843
2Romanian (ro)
Derivare regresivă
32.5861
3Dutch (nl)
Retrograde vorming
29.3515
4English (en)
Back-formation
26.9665
5Hebrew (he)
גזירה לאחור
25.3764
6Ukrainian (uk)
Зворотне словотворення
22.7165
7Portuguese (pt)
Derivação regressiva
22.0595
8Catalan (ca)
Derivació regressiva
21.1774
9German (de)
Rückbildung (Linguistik)
21.0075
10Russian (ru)
Обратное словообразование
20.7529
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Back-formation" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Back-formation
952 779
2French (fr)
Dérivation régressive
43 011
3German (de)
Rückbildung (Linguistik)
34 221
4Spanish (es)
Derivación regresiva
31 199
5Italian (it)
Retroformazione
25 336
6Japanese (ja)
逆成
23 831
7Persian (fa)
پسین‌سازی
18 187
8Portuguese (pt)
Derivação regressiva
13 171
9Hebrew (he)
גזירה לאחור
11 675
10Russian (ru)
Обратное словообразование
10 403
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Back-formation" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Back-formation
3 507
2Japanese (ja)
逆成
194
3Portuguese (pt)
Derivação regressiva
118
4Russian (ru)
Обратное словообразование
114
5Italian (it)
Retroformazione
106
6French (fr)
Dérivation régressive
87
7Persian (fa)
پسین‌سازی
80
8Romanian (ro)
Derivare regresivă
71
9German (de)
Rückbildung (Linguistik)
60
10Arabic (ar)
اشتقاق عكسي (صرف)
58
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Back-formation" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Back-formation
144
2German (de)
Rückbildung (Linguistik)
23
3French (fr)
Dérivation régressive
21
4Italian (it)
Retroformazione
15
5Dutch (nl)
Retrograde vorming
14
6Norwegian (no)
Tilbakedannelse (lingvistikk)
14
7Hebrew (he)
גזירה לאחור
13
8Spanish (es)
Derivación regresiva
12
9Arabic (ar)
اشتقاق عكسي (صرف)
11
10Hungarian (hu)
Elvonás (nyelvészet)
10
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Back-formation" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Catalan (ca)
Derivació regressiva
1
2English (en)
Back-formation
1
3Arabic (ar)
اشتقاق عكسي (صرف)
0
4German (de)
Rückbildung (Linguistik)
0
5Spanish (es)
Derivación regresiva
0
6Persian (fa)
پسین‌سازی
0
7French (fr)
Dérivation régressive
0
8Hebrew (he)
גזירה לאחור
0
9Hungarian (hu)
Elvonás (nyelvészet)
0
10Italian (it)
Retroformazione
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Back-formation" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Back-formation
207
2Russian (ru)
Обратное словообразование
61
3Italian (it)
Retroformazione
43
4Arabic (ar)
اشتقاق عكسي (صرف)
30
5French (fr)
Dérivation régressive
29
6Japanese (ja)
逆成
23
7Persian (fa)
پسین‌سازی
22
8German (de)
Rückbildung (Linguistik)
19
9Spanish (es)
Derivación regresiva
19
10Hebrew (he)
גזירה לאחור
16
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
اشتقاق عكسي (صرف)
caCatalan
Derivació regressiva
deGerman
Rückbildung (Linguistik)
enEnglish
Back-formation
esSpanish
Derivación regresiva
faPersian
پسین‌سازی
frFrench
Dérivation régressive
heHebrew
גזירה לאחור
huHungarian
Elvonás (nyelvészet)
itItalian
Retroformazione
jaJapanese
逆成
nlDutch
Retrograde vorming
noNorwegian
Tilbakedannelse (lingvistikk)
ptPortuguese
Derivação regressiva
roRomanian
Derivare regresivă
ruRussian
Обратное словообразование
ukUkrainian
Зворотне словотворення

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#121038
01.2008
Global:
#179382
01.2008

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#2097
09.2002
Global:
#3430
09.2002

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Back-formation from Wikipedia articles about Taxon, Arminius, Gigolo, Unpaired word and DAG. Whereas reading the article about Back-formation people most often go to Wikipedia articles on List of English back-formations, Neologism, Morphology, Backronym and Folk etymology.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

ja: 逆成

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