Special-purpose entity

Special purpose entity - legal entity - usually a limited company of some type or, sometimes, a limited partnership - created to fulfill narrow, specific or temporary objectives. Article “Special-purpose entity” in English Wikipedia has 22.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 10 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.16 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 “Special-purpose entity”, its content was written by 94 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 361 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 480 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1015 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #22715 in December 2004
• Global: #35489 in July 2024

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #47613 in October 2008
• Global: #47473 in October 2008

There are 17 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	German (de) Zweckgesellschaft		38.51
2	Catalan (ca) Entitat de propòsit especial		26.386
3	English (en) Special-purpose entity		22.1121
4	French (fr) Fonds commun de créances		21.1238
5	Persian (fa) ابزار ویژه مالی		20.7322
6	Italian (it) Società di progetto		20.6469
7	Malay (ms) Syarikat bertujuan khas		19.2622
8	Polish (pl) Spółka specjalnego przeznaczenia		12.7852
9	Lithuanian (lt) Specialiosios paskirties įmonė		11.1944
10	Japanese (ja) 特別目的事業体		8.2936

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Special-purpose entity" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Special-purpose entity		2 165 591
2	Japanese (ja) 特別目的事業体		503 182
3	German (de) Zweckgesellschaft		374 065
4	Russian (ru) SPV		249 429
5	French (fr) Fonds commun de créances		239 859
6	Portuguese (pt) Sociedade de propósito específico		184 594
7	Italian (it) Società di progetto		112 128
8	Dutch (nl) Special-purpose vehicle		83 083
9	Greek (el) Εταιρεία ειδικού σκοπού		34 699
10	Polish (pl) Spółka specjalnego przeznaczenia		32 444

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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 "Special-purpose entity" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Special-purpose entity		5 119
2	French (fr) Fonds commun de créances		727
3	Japanese (ja) 特別目的事業体		713
4	Russian (ru) SPV		565
5	German (de) Zweckgesellschaft		388
6	Italian (it) Società di progetto		347
7	Portuguese (pt) Sociedade de propósito específico		265
8	Polish (pl) Spółka specjalnego przeznaczenia		156
9	Greek (el) Εταιρεία ειδικού σκοπού		122
10	Dutch (nl) Special-purpose vehicle		104

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

Language versions of the article "Special-purpose entity" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Special-purpose entity		94
2	German (de) Zweckgesellschaft		68
3	French (fr) Fonds commun de créances		39
4	Dutch (nl) Special-purpose vehicle		30
5	Japanese (ja) 特別目的事業体		29
6	Russian (ru) SPV		24
7	Italian (it) Società di progetto		20
8	Norwegian (no) Spesialforetak		15
9	Portuguese (pt) Sociedade de propósito específico		14
10	Greek (el) Εταιρεία ειδικού σκοπού		7

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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 "Special-purpose entity" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Bulgarian (bg) Дружество със специална инвестиционна цел		0
2	Catalan (ca) Entitat de propòsit especial		0
3	German (de) Zweckgesellschaft		0
4	Greek (el) Εταιρεία ειδικού σκοπού		0
5	English (en) Special-purpose entity		0
6	Persian (fa) ابزار ویژه مالی		0
7	French (fr) Fonds commun de créances		0
8	Italian (it) Società di progetto		0
9	Japanese (ja) 特別目的事業体		0
10	Korean (ko) 특별목적회사		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 "Special-purpose entity" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Special-purpose entity		480
2	Japanese (ja) 特別目的事業体		184
3	German (de) Zweckgesellschaft		122
4	Russian (ru) SPV		43
5	Portuguese (pt) Sociedade de propósito específico		35
6	French (fr) Fonds commun de créances		29
7	Italian (it) Società di progetto		22
8	Dutch (nl) Special-purpose vehicle		20
9	Catalan (ca) Entitat de propòsit especial		18
10	Polish (pl) Spółka specjalnego przeznaczenia		16

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#	Language	Value
bg	Bulgarian Дружество със специална инвестиционна цел
ca	Catalan Entitat de propòsit especial
de	German Zweckgesellschaft
el	Greek Εταιρεία ειδικού σκοπού
en	English Special-purpose entity
fa	Persian ابزار ویژه مالی
fr	French Fonds commun de créances
it	Italian Società di progetto
ja	Japanese 特別目的事業体
ko	Korean 특별목적회사
lt	Lithuanian Specialiosios paskirties įmonė
ms	Malay Syarikat bertujuan khas
nl	Dutch Special-purpose vehicle
no	Norwegian Spesialforetak
pl	Polish Spółka specjalnego przeznaczenia
pt	Portuguese Sociedade de propósito específico
ru	Russian SPV

Best Rank

English: #47613 10.2008

Global: #47473 10.2008

Best Rank

English: #22715 12.2004

Global: #35489 07.2024

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