Garden-path sentence

Quality:

Garden-path sentence - grammatically correct sentence that starts in such a way that a reader's most likely interpretation will be incorrect. Article “Garden-path sentence” in English Wikipedia has 45.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 20 references and 17 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.

In June 2025 the article “Garden-path sentence” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Garden-path sentence”, its content was written by 277 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 357 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 43 times in English Wikipedia and cited 73 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1634 in November 2003
• Global: #7308 in November 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3966 in May 2014
• Global: #13478 in May 2014

There are 9 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) Garden-path sentence		45.5051
2	Chinese (zh) 園徑句型		31.438
3	Hebrew (he) משפט שביל בגן		31.1365
4	German (de) Holzwegeffekt		24.1675
5	Japanese (ja) 袋小路文		23.9731
6	Basque (eu) Erdibiko esaldiak		22.0795
7	Portuguese (pt) Teoria do Garden Path		9.8155
8	Russian (ru) Предложения «вводящие в заблуждение» (Garden-path sentences)		9.7152
9	Dutch (nl) Intuinzin		3.7047

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Garden-path sentence		2 856 817
2	German (de) Holzwegeffekt		76 136
3	Chinese (zh) 園徑句型		26 073
4	Dutch (nl) Intuinzin		18 618
5	Japanese (ja) 袋小路文		10 199
6	Portuguese (pt) Teoria do Garden Path		7 983
7	Hebrew (he) משפט שביל בגן		3 037
8	Basque (eu) Erdibiko esaldiak		1 052
9	Russian (ru) Предложения «вводящие в заблуждение» (Garden-path sentences)		289

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) Garden-path sentence		9 967
2	Japanese (ja) 袋小路文		416
3	German (de) Holzwegeffekt		234
4	Chinese (zh) 園徑句型		181
5	Russian (ru) Предложения «вводящие в заблуждение» (Garden-path sentences)		94
6	Dutch (nl) Intuinzin		51
7	Hebrew (he) משפט שביל בגן		46
8	Portuguese (pt) Teoria do Garden Path		33
9	Basque (eu) Erdibiko esaldiak		10

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Garden-path sentence		277
2	German (de) Holzwegeffekt		33
3	Dutch (nl) Intuinzin		15
4	Chinese (zh) 園徑句型		12
5	Hebrew (he) משפט שביל בגן		8
6	Portuguese (pt) Teoria do Garden Path		4
7	Japanese (ja) 袋小路文		3
8	Russian (ru) Предложения «вводящие в заблуждение» (Garden-path sentences)		3
9	Basque (eu) Erdibiko esaldiak		2

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) Garden-path sentence		3
2	German (de) Holzwegeffekt		0
3	Basque (eu) Erdibiko esaldiak		0
4	Hebrew (he) משפט שביל בגן		0
5	Japanese (ja) 袋小路文		0
6	Dutch (nl) Intuinzin		0
7	Portuguese (pt) Teoria do Garden Path		0
8	Russian (ru) Предложения «вводящие в заблуждение» (Garden-path sentences)		0
9	Chinese (zh) 園徑句型		0

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

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