Bowed string instrument

Bowed string instrument - string instrument played by a bow rubbing the strings. Article "Bowed string instrument" in English Wikipedia has 36.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 1 references and 9 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that language version.

In June 2025 the article "Bowed string instrument" was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Bowed string instrument", its content was written by 56 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1015 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 365 times in English Wikipedia and cited 10562 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #77793 in August 2012
• Global: #2111 in January 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #176477 in November 2020
• Global: #21700 in April 2020

There are 36 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.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Bowed string instrument		36.7506
2	Dutch (nl) Strijkinstrument		35.2914
3	Russian (ru) Струнные смычковые музыкальные инструменты		34.8334
4	Polish (pl) Chordofony smyczkowe		30.9045
5	Hungarian (hu) Vonós hangszerek		29.9574
6	Ukrainian (uk) Смичкові інструменти		28.5907
7	German (de) Streichinstrument		28.511
8	Latin (la) Instrumenta arcu pulsa		27.5296
9	Croatian (hr) Gudačka glazbala		25.9366
10	Hebrew (he) כלי קשת		24.6504

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Bowed string instrument" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Instrumento de cuerda frotada		1 007 933
2	German (de) Streichinstrument		996 273
3	Russian (ru) Струнные смычковые музыкальные инструменты		772 980
4	English (en) Bowed string instrument		552 190
5	Italian (it) Strumenti ad arco		472 908
6	French (fr) Instrument à cordes frottées		446 741
7	Polish (pl) Chordofony smyczkowe		420 374
8	Dutch (nl) Strijkinstrument		295 778
9	Swedish (sv) Stråkinstrument		236 634
10	Turkish (tr) Yaylı çalgı		188 495

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Bowed string instrument" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Bowed string instrument		1 839
2	German (de) Streichinstrument		1 664
3	Russian (ru) Струнные смычковые музыкальные инструменты		1 392
4	French (fr) Instrument à cordes frottées		749
5	Italian (it) Strumenti ad arco		656
6	Spanish (es) Instrumento de cuerda frotada		647
7	Japanese (ja) 擦弦楽器		592
8	Chinese (zh) 弓弦乐器		363
9	Dutch (nl) Strijkinstrument		358
10	Slovenian (sl) Godala		314

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Bowed string instrument" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Streichinstrument		164
2	Dutch (nl) Strijkinstrument		80
3	Italian (it) Strumenti ad arco		77
4	French (fr) Instrument à cordes frottées		57
5	English (en) Bowed string instrument		56
6	Spanish (es) Instrumento de cuerda frotada		51
7	Polish (pl) Chordofony smyczkowe		49
8	Russian (ru) Струнные смычковые музыкальные инструменты		45
9	Hebrew (he) כלי קשת		44
10	Hungarian (hu) Vonós hangszerek		44

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Bowed string instrument" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Bowed string instrument		1
2	French (fr) Instrument à cordes frottées		1
3	Arabic (ar) آلة وترية ذات قوس		0
4	Catalan (ca) Instrument de corda fregada		0
5	Czech (cs) Smyčcový nástroj		0
6	German (de) Streichinstrument		0
7	Esperanto (eo) Arĉinstrumento		0
8	Spanish (es) Instrumento de cuerda frotada		0
9	Estonian (et) Poogenkeelpillid		0
10	Basque (eu) Hari igurtzizko instrumentu		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Bowed string instrument" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Italian (it) Strumenti ad arco		2 305
2	German (de) Streichinstrument		1 923
3	Dutch (nl) Strijkinstrument		866
4	Swedish (sv) Stråkinstrument		512
5	Hebrew (he) כלי קשת		420
6	Russian (ru) Струнные смычковые музыкальные инструменты		386
7	Japanese (ja) 擦弦楽器		377
8	English (en) Bowed string instrument		365
9	Polish (pl) Chordofony smyczkowe		364
10	Hungarian (hu) Vonós hangszerek		354

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic آلة وترية ذات قوس
ca	Catalan Instrument de corda fregada
cs	Czech Smyčcový nástroj
de	German Streichinstrument
en	English Bowed string instrument
eo	Esperanto Arĉinstrumento
es	Spanish Instrumento de cuerda frotada
et	Estonian Poogenkeelpillid
eu	Basque Hari igurtzizko instrumentu
fa	Persian ساز زهی آرشه‌ای
fi	Finnish Jousisoitin
fr	French Instrument à cordes frottées
gl	Galician Instrumentos de corda fretada
he	Hebrew כלי קשת
hr	Croatian Gudačka glazbala
hu	Hungarian Vonós hangszerek
id	Indonesian Alat musik gesek
it	Italian Strumenti ad arco
ja	Japanese 擦弦楽器
ko	Korean 찰현악기
la	Latin Instrumenta arcu pulsa
nl	Dutch Strijkinstrument
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Strykeinstrument
no	Norwegian Strykeinstrument
pl	Polish Chordofony smyczkowe
pt	Portuguese Instrumento de cordas friccionadas
ru	Russian Струнные смычковые музыкальные инструменты
sh	Serbo-Croatian Gudački instrumenti
sl	Slovenian Godala
sr	Serbian Гудачки инструменти
sv	Swedish Stråkinstrument
tr	Turkish Yaylı çalgı
uk	Ukrainian Смичкові інструменти
vi	Vietnamese Nhạc cụ dây dùng vĩ
zh	Chinese 弓弦乐器
zhminnan	Min Nan Chhat-hiân-ga̍k-khì

Best Rank

English: #176477 11.2020

Global: #21700 04.2020

Best Rank

English: #77793 08.2012

Global: #2111 01.2003

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