Weasel word

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Weasel word

Quality:

Weasel word - word that appears meaningful but is vague. Article “Weasel word” in English Wikipedia has 31.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 21 references and 6 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “Weasel word” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 1 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Weasel word”, its content was written by 368 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 520 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 264 times in English Wikipedia and cited 580 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #6553 in September 2016
  • Global: #19853 in September 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #158 in September 2016
  • Global: #742 in September 2016

There are 15 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
1Hebrew (he)
חמקמילים
46.8134
2English (en)
Weasel word
31.9173
3Romanian (ro)
Cuvânt nevăstuică
26.1594
4Indonesian (id)
Kata cerpelai
25.4325
5Portuguese (pt)
Weasel word
25.4041
6Swedish (sv)
Vessleord
23.6856
7German (de)
Wieselwort
22.3137
8French (fr)
Mot ambigu
19.3967
9Chinese (zh)
含糊用語
17.7042
10Russian (ru)
Неопределённое выражение
17.6884
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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 "Weasel word" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Weasel word
2 569 486
2German (de)
Wieselwort
74 361
3Russian (ru)
Неопределённое выражение
52 740
4Portuguese (pt)
Weasel word
48 343
5Dutch (nl)
Holle frase
21 241
6Persian (fa)
الفاظ طفره‌آمیز
10 746
7Ukrainian (uk)
Анонімний авторитет
10 660
8Danish (da)
Væselord
6 654
9French (fr)
Mot ambigu
4 582
10Swedish (sv)
Vessleord
4 441
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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 "Weasel word" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Weasel word
7 341
2German (de)
Wieselwort
316
3Russian (ru)
Неопределённое выражение
291
4Portuguese (pt)
Weasel word
119
5Dutch (nl)
Holle frase
74
6French (fr)
Mot ambigu
54
7Chinese (zh)
含糊用語
51
8Swedish (sv)
Vessleord
44
9Hebrew (he)
חמקמילים
24
10Ukrainian (uk)
Анонімний авторитет
20
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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 "Weasel word" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Weasel word
368
2German (de)
Wieselwort
36
3Russian (ru)
Неопределённое выражение
19
4Ukrainian (uk)
Анонімний авторитет
16
5Dutch (nl)
Holle frase
13
6Danish (da)
Væselord
12
7French (fr)
Mot ambigu
11
8Portuguese (pt)
Weasel word
10
9Persian (fa)
الفاظ طفره‌آمیز
7
10Hebrew (he)
חמקמילים
6
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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 "Weasel word" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Weasel word
1
2Danish (da)
Væselord
0
3German (de)
Wieselwort
0
4Persian (fa)
الفاظ طفره‌آمیز
0
5French (fr)
Mot ambigu
0
6Hebrew (he)
חמקמילים
0
7Indonesian (id)
Kata cerpelai
0
8Dutch (nl)
Holle frase
0
9Norwegian (no)
Weasel word
0
10Portuguese (pt)
Weasel word
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 "Weasel word" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Weasel word
264
2Persian (fa)
الفاظ طفره‌آمیز
98
3Chinese (zh)
含糊用語
74
4Ukrainian (uk)
Анонімний авторитет
38
5Portuguese (pt)
Weasel word
32
6Norwegian (no)
Weasel word
22
7Indonesian (id)
Kata cerpelai
16
8German (de)
Wieselwort
10
9Russian (ru)
Неопределённое выражение
10
10Dutch (nl)
Holle frase
6
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
daDanish
Væselord
deGerman
Wieselwort
enEnglish
Weasel word
faPersian
الفاظ طفره‌آمیز
frFrench
Mot ambigu
heHebrew
חמקמילים
idIndonesian
Kata cerpelai
nlDutch
Holle frase
noNorwegian
Weasel word
ptPortuguese
Weasel word
roRomanian
Cuvânt nevăstuică
ruRussian
Неопределённое выражение
svSwedish
Vessleord
ukUkrainian
Анонімний авторитет
zhChinese
含糊用語

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#158
09.2016
Global:
#742
09.2016

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#6553
09.2016
Global:
#19853
09.2016

Local popularity rank history

Global 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 Weasel word from Wikipedia articles about Wikipedia article, Non-apology apology, Straw man argument, Woozle effect and Argument from authority. Whereas reading the article about Weasel word people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Noah S. Sweat, Mustela, Glittering generality, Fnord and Concept creep.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

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