Contraction (grammar)

Contraction - shortened version of a word, syllable or word group. Article "Contraction (grammar)" in English Wikipedia has 34.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 17 references and 21 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

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

In June 2025 the article "Contraction (grammar)" was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 1 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Contraction (grammar)", its content was written by 345 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 736 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 266 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2488 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #8037 in October 2021
• Global: #8144 in October 2021

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #15577 in March 2013
• Global: #27798 in March 2013

There are 22 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	Romanian (ro) Contragere		48.3634
2	French (fr) Contraction (linguistique)		46.3992
3	English (en) Contraction (grammar)		34.5706
4	Min Nan (zhminnan) Kán-chheng		31.6848
5	Esperanto (eo) Lingva kuntiriĝo		25.3095
6	Turkish (tr) Kaynaşma		24.5416
7	German (de) Verschmelzung (Grammatik)		24.2689
8	Arabic (ar) تقليص (لغة)		23.174
9	Simple English (simple) Contraction		18.7665
10	Catalan (ca) Contracció (gramàtica)		15.7918

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Contraction (grammar)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Contraction (grammar)		4 305 436
2	Spanish (es) Contracción (gramática)		811 836
3	Portuguese (pt) Contração (gramática)		253 857
4	Chinese (zh) 簡稱		81 494
5	Russian (ru) Стяжение		78 272
6	Indonesian (id) Kontraksi		73 300
7	Turkish (tr) Kaynaşma		68 404
8	German (de) Verschmelzung (Grammatik)		65 884
9	Japanese (ja) 前置詞と冠詞の縮約		45 859
10	French (fr) Contraction (linguistique)		39 026

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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 "Contraction (grammar)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Contraction (grammar)		7 423
2	Chinese (zh) 簡稱		450
3	Spanish (es) Contracción (gramática)		435
4	Portuguese (pt) Contração (gramática)		303
5	Russian (ru) Стяжение		302
6	French (fr) Contraction (linguistique)		202
7	Turkish (tr) Kaynaşma		202
8	Simple English (simple) Contraction		193
9	German (de) Verschmelzung (Grammatik)		186
10	Indonesian (id) Kontraksi		117

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Contraction (grammar)		345
2	Spanish (es) Contracción (gramática)		75
3	German (de) Verschmelzung (Grammatik)		49
4	Portuguese (pt) Contração (gramática)		36
5	Dutch (nl) Samentrekking (grammatica)		34
6	Chinese (zh) 簡稱		32
7	French (fr) Contraction (linguistique)		26
8	Simple English (simple) Contraction		26
9	Russian (ru) Стяжение		19
10	Japanese (ja) 前置詞と冠詞の縮約		14

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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 "Contraction (grammar)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Contraction (grammar)		1
2	Arabic (ar) تقليص (لغة)		0
3	Catalan (ca) Contracció (gramàtica)		0
4	German (de) Verschmelzung (Grammatik)		0
5	Esperanto (eo) Lingva kuntiriĝo		0
6	Spanish (es) Contracción (gramática)		0
7	Persian (fa) ادغام (زبان‌شناسی)		0
8	French (fr) Contraction (linguistique)		0
9	Indonesian (id) Kontraksi		0
10	Japanese (ja) 前置詞と冠詞の縮約		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 "Contraction (grammar)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Chinese (zh) 簡稱		1 459
2	English (en) Contraction (grammar)		266
3	Spanish (es) Contracción (gramática)		185
4	Turkish (tr) Kaynaşma		125
5	Dutch (nl) Samentrekking (grammatica)		75
6	Portuguese (pt) Contração (gramática)		69
7	Russian (ru) Стяжение		59
8	French (fr) Contraction (linguistique)		44
9	Indonesian (id) Kontraksi		34
10	Catalan (ca) Contracció (gramàtica)		28

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic تقليص (لغة)
ca	Catalan Contracció (gramàtica)
de	German Verschmelzung (Grammatik)
en	English Contraction (grammar)
eo	Esperanto Lingva kuntiriĝo
es	Spanish Contracción (gramática)
fa	Persian ادغام (زبان‌شناسی)
fr	French Contraction (linguistique)
id	Indonesian Kontraksi
ja	Japanese 前置詞と冠詞の縮約
la	Latin Contractio
nl	Dutch Samentrekking (grammatica)
pl	Polish Kontrakcja (skrót)
pt	Portuguese Contração (gramática)
ro	Romanian Contragere
ru	Russian Стяжение
simple	Simple English Contraction
tr	Turkish Kaynaşma
uk	Ukrainian Стягнення (мовознавство)
vi	Vietnamese Nói ríu
zh	Chinese 簡稱
zhminnan	Min Nan Kán-chheng

Best Rank

English: #15577 03.2013

Global: #27798 03.2013

Best Rank

English: #8037 10.2021

Global: #8144 10.2021

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