Complementary distribution

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Complementary distribution

Quality:

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 9.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). 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 42 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 121 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 113 times in English Wikipedia and cited 252 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #94233 in March 2005
  • Global: #73417 in June 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #147596 in October 2014
  • Global: #212576 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, 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
1Arabic (ar)
توزيع تكاملي
21.7844
2Polish (pl)
Dystrybucja komplementarna
20.7927
3Chinese (zh)
互补分布
18.9517
4Portuguese (pt)
Distribuição complementar
13.1209
5Italian (it)
Distribuzione (linguistica)
10.3265
6Indonesian (id)
Distribusi komplementer
10.1472
7English (en)
Complementary distribution
9.1614
8Japanese (ja)
相補分布
5.0653
9Korean (ko)
상보적 분포
1.3821
10Spanish (es)
Distribución complementaria
1.3592
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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 "Complementary distribution" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Complementary distribution
746 251
2Spanish (es)
Distribución complementaria
71 972
3Japanese (ja)
相補分布
62 536
4Italian (it)
Distribuzione (linguistica)
54 074
5Chinese (zh)
互补分布
42 097
6Korean (ko)
상보적 분포
36 162
7Polish (pl)
Dystrybucja komplementarna
15 243
8Swedish (sv)
Komplementär distribution
11 882
9Finnish (fi)
Täydennysjakauma
9 313
10Arabic (ar)
توزيع تكاملي
6 229
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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 "Complementary distribution" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Complementary distribution
1 285
2Japanese (ja)
相補分布
120
3Chinese (zh)
互补分布
112
4Italian (it)
Distribuzione (linguistica)
110
5Spanish (es)
Distribución complementaria
58
6Korean (ko)
상보적 분포
48
7Portuguese (pt)
Distribuição complementar
40
8Indonesian (id)
Distribusi komplementer
20
9Polish (pl)
Dystrybucja komplementarna
19
10Finnish (fi)
Täydennysjakauma
15
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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 "Complementary distribution" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Complementary distribution
42
2Italian (it)
Distribuzione (linguistica)
22
3Chinese (zh)
互补分布
11
4Japanese (ja)
相補分布
9
5Korean (ko)
상보적 분포
7
6Spanish (es)
Distribución complementaria
6
7Finnish (fi)
Täydennysjakauma
6
8Swedish (sv)
Komplementär distribution
6
9Polish (pl)
Dystrybucja komplementarna
5
10Arabic (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.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Complementary distribution" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Arabic (ar)
توزيع تكاملي
0
2English (en)
Complementary distribution
0
3Spanish (es)
Distribución complementaria
0
4Finnish (fi)
Täydennysjakauma
0
5Indonesian (id)
Distribusi komplementer
0
6Italian (it)
Distribuzione (linguistica)
0
7Japanese (ja)
相補分布
0
8Korean (ko)
상보적 분포
0
9Polish (pl)
Dystrybucja komplementarna
0
10Portuguese (pt)
Distribuição complementar
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 "Complementary distribution" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Complementary distribution
113
2Chinese (zh)
互补分布
31
3Japanese (ja)
相補分布
17
4Italian (it)
Distribuzione (linguistica)
16
5Spanish (es)
Distribución complementaria
15
6Korean (ko)
상보적 분포
15
7Swedish (sv)
Komplementär distribution
13
8Portuguese (pt)
Distribuição complementar
10
9Polish (pl)
Dystrybucja komplementarna
8
10Arabic (ar)
توزيع تكاملي
5
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
توزيع تكاملي
enEnglish
Complementary distribution
esSpanish
Distribución complementaria
fiFinnish
Täydennysjakauma
idIndonesian
Distribusi komplementer
itItalian
Distribuzione (linguistica)
jaJapanese
相補分布
koKorean
상보적 분포
plPolish
Dystrybucja komplementarna
ptPortuguese
Distribuição complementar
svSwedish
Komplementär distribution
zhChinese
互补分布

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#147596
10.2014
Global:
#212576
10.2014

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#94233
03.2005
Global:
#73417
06.2005

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Complementary distribution from Wikipedia articles about Allophone, Aspiration, Contrastive distribution, Phoneme and Standard Chinese phonology. Whereas reading the article about Complementary distribution people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Contrastive distribution, Free variation, Allophone, Minimal pair and Allomorph.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

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