False cognate

False cognate - words that look or sound alike, but are not related. Article “False cognate” in English Wikipedia has 49.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 40 references and 12 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Since the creation of article “False cognate”, its content was written by 314 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 406 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 69 times in English Wikipedia and cited 130 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #911 in January 2002
• Global: #1050 in January 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #54649 in January 2015
• Global: #104326 in January 2015

There are 13 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	English (en) False cognate		49.2798
2	Turkish (tr) Yalancı kökteş		46.6337
3	Japanese (ja) 欺瞞的同根語		27.6285
4	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Uekte kognat		25.6797
5	Latin (la) Verbum falsum cognatum		25.5958
6	Arabic (ar) شقيقة غير حقيقية (لسانيات)		24.7556
7	Chinese (zh) 偽同源詞		24.4929
8	Indonesian (id) Kata kerabat palsu		20.6265
9	Vietnamese (vi) Từ đồng nguyên giả		19.9961
10	Spanish (es) Falso cognado		18.1152

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

The most popular language versions of the article "False cognate" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) False cognate		924 534
2	Spanish (es) Falso cognado		300 025
3	Korean (ko) 가짜동족어		11 071
4	Dutch (nl) Valse cognaat		9 997
5	Japanese (ja) 欺瞞的同根語		9 945
6	Swedish (sv) Falska kognater		6 335
7	Arabic (ar) شقيقة غير حقيقية (لسانيات)		3 707
8	Indonesian (id) Kata kerabat palsu		3 034
9	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Uekte kognat		2 271
10	Chinese (zh) 偽同源詞		1 783

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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 "False cognate" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) False cognate		3 448
2	Spanish (es) Falso cognado		463
3	Japanese (ja) 欺瞞的同根語		151
4	Chinese (zh) 偽同源詞		90
5	Dutch (nl) Valse cognaat		43
6	Turkish (tr) Yalancı kökteş		42
7	Indonesian (id) Kata kerabat palsu		35
8	Korean (ko) 가짜동족어		29
9	Swedish (sv) Falska kognater		27
10	Arabic (ar) شقيقة غير حقيقية (لسانيات)		25

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) False cognate		314
2	Spanish (es) Falso cognado		32
3	Dutch (nl) Valse cognaat		16
4	Swedish (sv) Falska kognater		8
5	Arabic (ar) شقيقة غير حقيقية (لسانيات)		7
6	Japanese (ja) 欺瞞的同根語		7
7	Korean (ko) 가짜동족어		6
8	Latin (la) Verbum falsum cognatum		5
9	Chinese (zh) 偽同源詞		4
10	Turkish (tr) Yalancı kökteş		3

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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 "False cognate" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Dutch (nl) Valse cognaat		1
2	Arabic (ar) شقيقة غير حقيقية (لسانيات)		0
3	English (en) False cognate		0
4	Spanish (es) Falso cognado		0
5	Indonesian (id) Kata kerabat palsu		0
6	Japanese (ja) 欺瞞的同根語		0
7	Korean (ko) 가짜동족어		0
8	Latin (la) Verbum falsum cognatum		0
9	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Uekte kognat		0
10	Swedish (sv) Falska kognater		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 "False cognate" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) False cognate		69
2	Arabic (ar) شقيقة غير حقيقية (لسانيات)		12
3	Spanish (es) Falso cognado		12
4	Swedish (sv) Falska kognater		11
5	Korean (ko) 가짜동족어		7
6	Japanese (ja) 欺瞞的同根語		5
7	Dutch (nl) Valse cognaat		5
8	Indonesian (id) Kata kerabat palsu		3
9	Chinese (zh) 偽同源詞		3
10	Latin (la) Verbum falsum cognatum		1

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic شقيقة غير حقيقية (لسانيات)
en	English False cognate
es	Spanish Falso cognado
id	Indonesian Kata kerabat palsu
ja	Japanese 欺瞞的同根語
ko	Korean 가짜동족어
la	Latin Verbum falsum cognatum
nl	Dutch Valse cognaat
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Uekte kognat
sv	Swedish Falska kognater
tr	Turkish Yalancı kökteş
vi	Vietnamese Từ đồng nguyên giả
zh	Chinese 偽同源詞

Best Rank

English: #54649 01.2015

Global: #104326 01.2015

Best Rank

English: #911 01.2002

Global: #1050 01.2002

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