Distinctive feature

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Distinctive feature

Quality:

Distinctive feature - the most basic unit of phonological structure that may be analyzed in phonological theory. Article "Distinctive feature" in English Wikipedia has 44.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 22 references and 14 sections.

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

Since the creation of article "Distinctive feature", its content was written by 75 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 258 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 110 times in English Wikipedia and cited 521 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #41013 in September 2024
  • Global: #28491 in April 2025

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #150908 in November 2021
  • Global: #147938 in April 2009

There are 20 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
1Chinese (zh)
區別特徵
49.8806
2English (en)
Distinctive feature
44.0831
3German (de)
Distinktives Merkmal
35.0225
4Czech (cs)
Distinktivní rys
29.1451
5French (fr)
Trait distinctif
26.0158
6Russian (ru)
Дифференциальный признак
24.3585
7Arabic (ar)
صفة قياسية
22.1795
8Italian (it)
Tratto distintivo
22.1003
9Persian (fa)
مشخصه تمایزدهنده
21.1109
10Polish (pl)
Cecha fonologiczna relewantna
17.1376
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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 "Distinctive feature" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Distinctive feature
880 088
2Spanish (es)
Rasgo fonético distintivo
238 307
3Polish (pl)
Cecha fonologiczna relewantna
132 587
4German (de)
Distinktives Merkmal
120 015
5Italian (it)
Tratto distintivo
102 743
6Japanese (ja)
弁別的素性
83 974
7Russian (ru)
Дифференциальный признак
59 183
8Korean (ko)
변별적 자질
53 802
9Swedish (sv)
Särdrag
27 203
10Dutch (nl)
Distinctief kenmerk
19 998
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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 "Distinctive feature" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Distinctive feature
2 390
2Japanese (ja)
弁別的素性
374
3Spanish (es)
Rasgo fonético distintivo
168
4Italian (it)
Tratto distintivo
141
5German (de)
Distinktives Merkmal
140
6Korean (ko)
변별적 자질
115
7Russian (ru)
Дифференциальный признак
100
8Chinese (zh)
區別特徵
87
9Polish (pl)
Cecha fonologiczna relewantna
79
10Czech (cs)
Distinktivní rys
62
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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 "Distinctive feature" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Distinctive feature
75
2German (de)
Distinktives Merkmal
33
3Italian (it)
Tratto distintivo
30
4Swedish (sv)
Särdrag
22
5Dutch (nl)
Distinctief kenmerk
14
6Polish (pl)
Cecha fonologiczna relewantna
13
7Japanese (ja)
弁別的素性
10
8Korean (ko)
변별적 자질
10
9Norwegian (no)
Fonologiske særtrekk
10
10Hebrew (he)
תכונית מבחינה
8
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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 "Distinctive feature" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Swedish (sv)
Särdrag
2
2Arabic (ar)
صفة قياسية
0
3Catalan (ca)
Tret distintiu
0
4Czech (cs)
Distinktivní rys
0
5German (de)
Distinktives Merkmal
0
6English (en)
Distinctive feature
0
7Esperanto (eo)
Distinga trajto
0
8Spanish (es)
Rasgo fonético distintivo
0
9Persian (fa)
مشخصه تمایزدهنده
0
10French (fr)
Trait distinctif
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 "Distinctive feature" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Distinctive feature
110
2Russian (ru)
Дифференциальный признак
108
3German (de)
Distinktives Merkmal
52
4Italian (it)
Tratto distintivo
50
5Japanese (ja)
弁別的素性
41
6Polish (pl)
Cecha fonologiczna relewantna
41
7Spanish (es)
Rasgo fonético distintivo
32
8Dutch (nl)
Distinctief kenmerk
16
9Korean (ko)
변별적 자질
10
10Swedish (sv)
Särdrag
10
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
صفة قياسية
caCatalan
Tret distintiu
csCzech
Distinktivní rys
deGerman
Distinktives Merkmal
enEnglish
Distinctive feature
eoEsperanto
Distinga trajto
esSpanish
Rasgo fonético distintivo
faPersian
مشخصه تمایزدهنده
frFrench
Trait distinctif
heHebrew
תכונית מבחינה
itItalian
Tratto distintivo
jaJapanese
弁別的素性
koKorean
변별적 자질
nlDutch
Distinctief kenmerk
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Fonologisk trekk
noNorwegian
Fonologiske særtrekk
plPolish
Cecha fonologiczna relewantna
ruRussian
Дифференциальный признак
svSwedish
Särdrag
zhChinese
區別特徵

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#150908
11.2021
Global:
#147938
04.2009

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#41013
09.2024
Global:
#28491
04.2025

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Distinctive feature from Wikipedia articles about Featural writing system, Phoneme, Sound change, Roman Jakobson and Feature. Whereas reading the article about Distinctive feature people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Feature geometry, Natural class, Phonology, Bilabial plosive and Voice.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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