Fossil word

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Fossil word

Quality:

Fossil word - word that is broadly obsolete but remains in current use due to its presence within an idiom. Article “Fossil word” in English Wikipedia has 23.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 12 references and 4 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.22 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Fossil word”, its content was written by 90 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 110 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 20 times in English Wikipedia and cited 32 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #6358 in August 2021
  • Global: #31863 in August 2021

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #6468 in January 2016
  • Global: #18309 in January 2016

There are 8 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
1Catalan (ca)
Paraula fòssil
24.9186
2Malay (ms)
Perkataan fosil
24.3834
3English (en)
Fossil word
23.113
4Turkish (tr)
Fosil sözcük
18.2051
5Spanish (es)
Fósil lingüístico
17.752
6Arabic (ar)
لفظ متحجر
17.4777
7Simple English (simple)
Fossil word
3.2895
8Basque (eu)
Fosilizazio (hizkuntza)
1.1231
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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 "Fossil word" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Fossil word
534 949
2Spanish (es)
Fósil lingüístico
4 633
3Arabic (ar)
لفظ متحجر
3 569
4Simple English (simple)
Fossil word
759
5Catalan (ca)
Paraula fòssil
680
6Turkish (tr)
Fosil sözcük
412
7Basque (eu)
Fosilizazio (hizkuntza)
181
8Malay (ms)
Perkataan fosil
31
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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 "Fossil word" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Fossil word
2 758
2Spanish (es)
Fósil lingüístico
49
3Catalan (ca)
Paraula fòssil
16
4Simple English (simple)
Fossil word
14
5Arabic (ar)
لفظ متحجر
8
6Turkish (tr)
Fosil sözcük
7
7Malay (ms)
Perkataan fosil
4
8Basque (eu)
Fosilizazio (hizkuntza)
3
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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 "Fossil word" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Fossil word
90
2Arabic (ar)
لفظ متحجر
4
3Catalan (ca)
Paraula fòssil
4
4Basque (eu)
Fosilizazio (hizkuntza)
4
5Simple English (simple)
Fossil word
3
6Turkish (tr)
Fosil sözcük
3
7Spanish (es)
Fósil lingüístico
1
8Malay (ms)
Perkataan fosil
1
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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 "Fossil word" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Arabic (ar)
لفظ متحجر
0
2Catalan (ca)
Paraula fòssil
0
3English (en)
Fossil word
0
4Spanish (es)
Fósil lingüístico
0
5Basque (eu)
Fosilizazio (hizkuntza)
0
6Malay (ms)
Perkataan fosil
0
7Simple English (simple)
Fossil word
0
8Turkish (tr)
Fosil sözcük
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 "Fossil word" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Fossil word
20
2Arabic (ar)
لفظ متحجر
5
3Spanish (es)
Fósil lingüístico
5
4Catalan (ca)
Paraula fòssil
1
5Malay (ms)
Perkataan fosil
1
6Basque (eu)
Fosilizazio (hizkuntza)
0
7Simple English (simple)
Fossil word
0
8Turkish (tr)
Fosil sözcük
0
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
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Global:
Popularity in June 2025:
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Popularity in all years:
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Authors in June 2025:
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Registered authors in all years:
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Citations:
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
لفظ متحجر
caCatalan
Paraula fòssil
enEnglish
Fossil word
esSpanish
Fósil lingüístico
euBasque
Fosilizazio (hizkuntza)
msMalay
Perkataan fosil
simpleSimple English
Fossil word
trTurkish
Fosil sözcük

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#6468
01.2016
Global:
#18309
01.2016

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#6358
08.2021
Global:
#31863
08.2021

Local popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Fossil word from Wikipedia articles about Archaism, Fossilization, Irreversible binomial, New Guinea and Cranberry morpheme. Whereas reading the article about Fossil word people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Cranberry morpheme, Bound and free morphemes, Irreversible binomial, Fossilization and Collocation.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

simple: Fossil word

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