Complementary distribution

Complementary distribution - linguistic phenomenon where some phonemes of a language are found in some cases and others are found in similar but different cases; often indicating sound change and divergent mutual descents. Article “Complementary distribution” in English Wikipedia has 9.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 1 references and 4 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.48 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Complementary distribution”, its content was written by 43 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 122 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 125 times in English Wikipedia and cited 266 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #94114 in March 2005
• Global: #73494 in June 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #148429 in October 2014
• Global: #216412 in October 2014

There are 12 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, 2026 (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	Arabic (ar) توزيع تكاملي		21.7802
2	Polish (pl) Dystrybucja komplementarna		20.6781
3	Chinese (zh) 互补分布		18.934
4	Portuguese (pt) Distribuição complementar		13.0775
5	Italian (it) Distribuzione (linguistica)		10.2862
6	Indonesian (id) Distribusi komplementer		10.1203
7	English (en) Complementary distribution		9.1372
8	Japanese (ja) 相補分布		5.0261
9	Korean (ko) 상보적 분포		1.3862
10	Spanish (es) Distribución complementaria		1.3429

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Complementary distribution" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Complementary distribution		756 795
2	Spanish (es) Distribución complementaria		72 790
3	Japanese (ja) 相補分布		64 019
4	Italian (it) Distribuzione (linguistica)		54 854
5	Chinese (zh) 互补分布		43 818
6	Korean (ko) 상보적 분포		36 753
7	Polish (pl) Dystrybucja komplementarna		15 602
8	Swedish (sv) Komplementär distribution		12 196
9	Finnish (fi) Täydennysjakauma		9 551
10	Arabic (ar) توزيع تكاملي		6 304

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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 "Complementary distribution" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Complementary distribution		615
2	Chinese (zh) 互补分布		109
3	Japanese (ja) 相補分布		91
4	Italian (it) Distribuzione (linguistica)		45
5	Spanish (es) Distribución complementaria		35
6	Polish (pl) Dystrybucja komplementarna		27
7	Korean (ko) 상보적 분포		24
8	Portuguese (pt) Distribuição complementar		21
9	Finnish (fi) Täydennysjakauma		11
10	Swedish (sv) Komplementär distribution		10

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Complementary distribution		43
2	Italian (it) Distribuzione (linguistica)		22
3	Chinese (zh) 互补分布		11
4	Japanese (ja) 相補分布		9
5	Korean (ko) 상보적 분포		7
6	Spanish (es) Distribución complementaria		6
7	Finnish (fi) Täydennysjakauma		6
8	Swedish (sv) Komplementär distribution		6
9	Polish (pl) Dystrybucja komplementarna		5
10	Arabic (ar) توزيع تكاملي		3

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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 "Complementary distribution" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) توزيع تكاملي		0
2	English (en) Complementary distribution		0
3	Spanish (es) Distribución complementaria		0
4	Finnish (fi) Täydennysjakauma		0
5	Indonesian (id) Distribusi komplementer		0
6	Italian (it) Distribuzione (linguistica)		0
7	Japanese (ja) 相補分布		0
8	Korean (ko) 상보적 분포		0
9	Polish (pl) Dystrybucja komplementarna		0
10	Portuguese (pt) Distribuição complementar		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 "Complementary distribution" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Complementary distribution		125
2	Chinese (zh) 互补分布		31
3	Japanese (ja) 相補分布		18
4	Spanish (es) Distribución complementaria		16
5	Italian (it) Distribuzione (linguistica)		15
6	Portuguese (pt) Distribuição complementar		14
7	Korean (ko) 상보적 분포		13
8	Swedish (sv) Komplementär distribution		13
9	Polish (pl) Dystrybucja komplementarna		8
10	Arabic (ar) توزيع تكاملي		5

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic توزيع تكاملي
en	English Complementary distribution
es	Spanish Distribución complementaria
fi	Finnish Täydennysjakauma
id	Indonesian Distribusi komplementer
it	Italian Distribuzione (linguistica)
ja	Japanese 相補分布
ko	Korean 상보적 분포
pl	Polish Dystrybucja komplementarna
pt	Portuguese Distribuição complementar
sv	Swedish Komplementär distribution
zh	Chinese 互补分布

Best Rank

English: #148429 10.2014

Global: #216412 10.2014

Best Rank

English: #94114 03.2005

Global: #73494 06.2005

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