Compound (linguistics)

Compound - lexeme that consists of more than one stem. Article "Compound (linguistics)" in English Wikipedia has 50.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 24 references and 16 sections.

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

Since the creation of article "Compound (linguistics)", its content was written by 274 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1191 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 857 times in English Wikipedia and cited 4404 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #8868 in August 2004
• Global: #8594 in August 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #49976 in October 2008
• Global: #15342 in October 2018

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	Hungarian (hu) Szóösszetétel		67.7826
2	German (de) Komposition (Grammatik)		66.2222
3	Romanian (ro) Compunere (lingvistică)		61.536
4	English (en) Compound (linguistics)		50.6895
5	Estonian (et) Liitsõna		44.6466
6	Swedish (sv) Sammansättning (lingvistik)		34.5796
7	Slovenian (sl) Tvorjenka		33.3871
8	Dutch (nl) Samenstelling (taalkunde)		31.9545
9	Chinese (zh) 合成词		30.6503
10	Czech (cs) Složenina		29.1619

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Compound (linguistics)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Compound (linguistics)		2 525 889
2	Hindi (hi) समास		2 318 728
3	German (de) Komposition (Grammatik)		1 192 639
4	Spanish (es) Composición (lingüística)		1 001 924
5	French (fr) Mot composé		451 195
6	Russian (ru) Сложное слово		440 555
7	Italian (it) Composizione (linguistica)		345 844
8	Japanese (ja) 複合語		264 527
9	Indonesian (id) Kata majemuk		258 252
10	Polish (pl) Złożenie (językoznawstwo)		230 723

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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 "Compound (linguistics)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Hindi (hi) समास		8 140
2	English (en) Compound (linguistics)		7 633
3	German (de) Komposition (Grammatik)		1 876
4	Spanish (es) Composición (lingüística)		763
5	Russian (ru) Сложное слово		762
6	Chinese (zh) 合成词		566
7	Uzbek (uz) Qoʻshma soʻzlar		538
8	French (fr) Mot composé		510
9	Japanese (ja) 複合語		466
10	Romanian (ro) Compunere (lingvistică)		377

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Compound (linguistics)		274
2	German (de) Komposition (Grammatik)		206
3	Hindi (hi) समास		96
4	French (fr) Mot composé		89
5	Finnish (fi) Yhdyssana		55
6	Italian (it) Composizione (linguistica)		48
7	Spanish (es) Composición (lingüística)		43
8	Russian (ru) Сложное слово		31
9	Swedish (sv) Sammansättning (lingvistik)		28
10	Chinese (zh) 合成词		26

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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 "Compound (linguistics)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Indonesian (id) Kata majemuk		1
2	Arabic (ar) مركب تضمني		0
3	Belarusian (be) Складанае слова		0
4	Catalan (ca) Composició (gramàtica)		0
5	Czech (cs) Složenina		0
6	Danish (da) Kompositum		0
7	German (de) Komposition (Grammatik)		0
8	English (en) Compound (linguistics)		0
9	Esperanto (eo) Kunmetita vorto		0
10	Spanish (es) Composición (lingüística)		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 "Compound (linguistics)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Compound (linguistics)		857
2	German (de) Komposition (Grammatik)		795
3	Italian (it) Composizione (linguistica)		302
4	Dutch (nl) Samenstelling (taalkunde)		239
5	French (fr) Mot composé		237
6	Chinese (zh) 合成词		218
7	Spanish (es) Composición (lingüística)		170
8	Japanese (ja) 複合語		165
9	Russian (ru) Сложное слово		147
10	Portuguese (pt) Composição (linguística)		144

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic مركب تضمني
be	Belarusian Складанае слова
ca	Catalan Composició (gramàtica)
cs	Czech Složenina
da	Danish Kompositum
de	German Komposition (Grammatik)
en	English Compound (linguistics)
eo	Esperanto Kunmetita vorto
es	Spanish Composición (lingüística)
et	Estonian Liitsõna
fa	Persian ترکیب (زبان‌شناسی)
fi	Finnish Yhdyssana
fr	French Mot composé
he	Hebrew הרכב (בלשנות)
hi	Hindi समास
hu	Hungarian Szóösszetétel
id	Indonesian Kata majemuk
it	Italian Composizione (linguistica)
ja	Japanese 複合語
ka	Georgian რთული სიტყვა
ko	Korean 합성어
la	Latin Verbum compositum
ms	Malay Kata majmuk
nl	Dutch Samenstelling (taalkunde)
no	Norwegian Sammensetning (lingvistikk)
pl	Polish Złożenie (językoznawstwo)
pt	Portuguese Composição (linguística)
ro	Romanian Compunere (lingvistică)
ru	Russian Сложное слово
simple	Simple English Compound (linguistics)
sk	Slovak Zložené slovo
sl	Slovenian Tvorjenka
sv	Swedish Sammansättning (lingvistik)
uk	Ukrainian Складне слово
uz	Uzbek Qoʻshma soʻzlar
zh	Chinese 合成词

Best Rank

English: #49976 10.2008

Global: #15342 10.2018

Best Rank

English: #8868 08.2004

Global: #8594 08.2004

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