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Function word

Quality:

Function word - words with little/ambiguous lexical meaning that express grammatical relationships or specify the speaker’s attitude/mood of the speaker; e.g. articles, pronouns, adpositions, conjunctions, auxiliary verbs, interjections, particles. Article “Function word” in English Wikipedia has 16.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 5 references and 5 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.85 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Function word”, its content was written by 91 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 294 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 165 times in English Wikipedia and cited 824 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #3093 in February 2003
  • Global: #6719 in February 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #84609 in June 2010
  • Global: #53572 in January 2015

There are 21 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1German (de)
Synsemantikum
29.7797
2Vietnamese (vi)
Hư từ
29.6472
3Persian (fa)
نقش‌نما
27.7377
4Ukrainian (uk)
Службові слова
27.4614
5Russian (ru)
Служебные слова
26.479
6Indonesian (id)
Kata tugas
25.152
7Romanian (ro)
Cuvânt gramatical
24.9541
8Italian (it)
Parola funzione
22.3821
9Uzbek (uz)
Yordamchi soʻzlar
21.1112
10Finnish (fi)
Funktiosana
19.7709
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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 "Function word" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Function word
1 349 623
2Russian (ru)
Служебные слова
381 740
3Indonesian (id)
Kata tugas
365 795
4French (fr)
Mot grammatical
222 012
5Urdu (ur)
حروف کی اقسام
200 780
6Malay (ms)
Kata tugas
165 306
7Chinese (zh)
虚词
146 905
8Ukrainian (uk)
Службові слова
145 047
9Polish (pl)
Funktor
118 548
10Uzbek (uz)
Yordamchi soʻzlar
100 920
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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 2026

The most popular language versions of the article "Function word" in June 2026
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Function word
2 015
2Urdu (ur)
حروف کی اقسام
486
3Uzbek (uz)
Yordamchi soʻzlar
354
4Russian (ru)
Служебные слова
329
5Chinese (zh)
虚词
303
6French (fr)
Mot grammatical
189
7German (de)
Synsemantikum
127
8Polish (pl)
Funktor
123
9Malay (ms)
Kata tugas
105
10Vietnamese (vi)
Hư từ
101
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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 "Function word" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Function word
91
2French (fr)
Mot grammatical
42
3German (de)
Synsemantikum
30
4Chinese (zh)
虚词
20
5Russian (ru)
Служебные слова
18
6Dutch (nl)
Functiewoord
14
7Polish (pl)
Funktor
12
8Ukrainian (uk)
Службові слова
11
9Malay (ms)
Kata tugas
9
10Indonesian (id)
Kata tugas
7
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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 2026

Language versions of the article "Function word" with the highest AI in June 2026
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Uzbek (uz)
Yordamchi soʻzlar
1
2Arabic (ar)
كلمات وظيفية
0
3German (de)
Synsemantikum
0
4English (en)
Function word
0
5Persian (fa)
نقش‌نما
0
6Finnish (fi)
Funktiosana
0
7French (fr)
Mot grammatical
0
8Armenian (hy)
Սպասարկու բառեր
0
9Indonesian (id)
Kata tugas
0
10Italian (it)
Parola funzione
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 "Function word" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Function word
165
2Chinese (zh)
虚词
162
3Russian (ru)
Служебные слова
148
4French (fr)
Mot grammatical
81
5Romanian (ro)
Cuvânt gramatical
55
6German (de)
Synsemantikum
39
7Malay (ms)
Kata tugas
33
8Ukrainian (uk)
Службові слова
27
9Persian (fa)
نقش‌نما
22
10Dutch (nl)
Functiewoord
21
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
كلمات وظيفية
deGerman
Synsemantikum
enEnglish
Function word
faPersian
نقش‌نما
fiFinnish
Funktiosana
frFrench
Mot grammatical
hyArmenian
Սպասարկու բառեր
idIndonesian
Kata tugas
itItalian
Parola funzione
koKorean
문법형태소
msMalay
Kata tugas
nlDutch
Functiewoord
plPolish
Funktor
roRomanian
Cuvânt gramatical
ruRussian
Служебные слова
slSlovenian
Funkcijska beseda
ukUkrainian
Службові слова
urUrdu
حروف کی اقسام
uzUzbek
Yordamchi soʻzlar
viVietnamese
Hư từ
zhChinese
虚词

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#84609
06.2010
Global:
#53572
01.2015

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#3093
02.2003
Global:
#6719
02.2003

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2025 – June 2026)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Function word from Wikipedia articles about Kanzi, Maltese, Grammatical particle, Part of speech and Functor. Whereas reading the article about Function word people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Content word, Part of speech, Adposition, Grammatical particle and Conjunction.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

zh: 虚词

News from 1 July 2026

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In English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Julián Quiñones, List of FIFA World Cup top goalscorers, Kylian Mbappé, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Erling Haaland, DR Congo national football team, Melat Kiros, FIFA World Cup.

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