Etymology

Quality:

Etymology science - study of the history of words, their origins, and how their form and meaning have changed over time. Article “Etymology” in English Wikipedia has 42.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 19 references and 14 sections.

This article has the best quality in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 8129^th most popular in all topics.

The 7386^th most popular in AI.

In June 2026 the article “Etymology” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Etymology”, its content was written by 644 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2980 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7386^th place).

The article is cited 3971 times in English Wikipedia (6927^th place) and cited 40768 times in all languages (4159^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #371 in August 2002
• Global: #190 in August 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #10190 in September 2008
• Global: #2981 in September 2009

There are 54 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	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Etymologi		64.1185
2	Estonian (et) Etümoloogia		56.5507
3	English (en) Etymology		42.0904
4	Hungarian (hu) Etimológia		37.4258
5	Latin (la) Etymologia		34.039
6	Japanese (ja) 語源学		33.0408
7	Romanian (ro) Etimologie		32.3555
8	Ukrainian (uk) Етимологія		32.2995
9	Arabic (ar) علم التأثيل		29.277
10	Hebrew (he) אטימולוגיה		25.5355

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Etimología		8 217 896
2	English (en) Etymology		7 297 044
3	Russian (ru) Этимология		2 550 049
4	German (de) Etymologie		2 105 456
5	French (fr) Étymologie		1 706 124
6	Portuguese (pt) Etimologia		1 593 901
7	Italian (it) Etimologia		1 089 837
8	Polish (pl) Etymologia		932 094
9	Indonesian (id) Etimologi		789 760
10	Swedish (sv) Etymologi		573 926

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Etymology		12 962
2	Russian (ru) Этимология		3 617
3	German (de) Etymologie		2 483
4	Swedish (sv) Etymologi		2 320
5	Spanish (es) Etimología		1 938
6	French (fr) Étymologie		1 831
7	Portuguese (pt) Etimologia		979
8	Polish (pl) Etymologia		955
9	Dutch (nl) Etymologie		759
10	Italian (it) Etimologia		737

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Etymology		644
2	German (de) Etymologie		271
3	French (fr) Étymologie		240
4	Spanish (es) Etimología		233
5	Dutch (nl) Etymologie		132
6	Russian (ru) Этимология		125
7	Italian (it) Etimologia		120
8	Hebrew (he) אטימולוגיה		67
9	Portuguese (pt) Etimologia		67
10	Turkish (tr) Etimoloji		56

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Etymology		4
2	Italian (it) Etimologia		2
3	Arabic (ar) علم التأثيل		1
4	Basque (eu) Etimologia		1
5	Azerbaijani (az) Etimologiya		0
6	Belarusian (be) Этымалогія		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Етимология		0
8	Catalan (ca) Etimologia		0
9	Czech (cs) Etymologie		0
10	Danish (da) Etymologi		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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