Etimología popular

False etymology - popularly held but false belief about the origin or derivation of a specific word. Article “Etimología popular” in Spanish Wikipedia has 29.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 14 references and 9 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Since the creation of article “Etimología popular”, its content was written by 26 registered users of Spanish Wikipedia and edited by 264 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 184 times in Spanish Wikipedia and cited 533 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Spanish): #14498 in September 2008
• Global: #2492 in January 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Spanish): #19545 in August 2009
• Global: #134473 in August 2009

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	Spanish (es) Etimología popular		29.4579
2	Russian (ru) Псевдоэтимология		27.1351
3	French (fr) Fausse étymologie		23.0124
4	English (en) False etymology		22.1024
5	Arabic (ar) تأثيل خاطئ		20.511
6	Basque (eu) Herri-etimologia		17.7141
7	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Lažna etimologija		13.434
8	Slovenian (sl) Lažna etimologija		2.5297
9	Persian (fa) ریشه‌شناسی نادرست		1.0686

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Etimología popular" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) False etymology		847 151
2	Spanish (es) Etimología popular		291 374
3	French (fr) Fausse étymologie		7 664
4	Russian (ru) Псевдоэтимология		6 930
5	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Lažna etimologija		1 623
6	Arabic (ar) تأثيل خاطئ		1 249
7	Slovenian (sl) Lažna etimologija		289
8	Persian (fa) ریشه‌شناسی نادرست		230
9	Basque (eu) Herri-etimologia		183

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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 "Etimología popular" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) False etymology		4 136
2	Spanish (es) Etimología popular		364
3	Russian (ru) Псевдоэтимология		205
4	French (fr) Fausse étymologie		80
5	Arabic (ar) تأثيل خاطئ		17
6	Persian (fa) ریشه‌شناسی نادرست		16
7	Slovenian (sl) Lažna etimologija		15
8	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Lažna etimologija		14
9	Basque (eu) Herri-etimologia		11

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

Language versions of the article "Etimología popular" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) False etymology		218
2	Spanish (es) Etimología popular		26
3	Russian (ru) Псевдоэтимология		7
4	French (fr) Fausse étymologie		5
5	Arabic (ar) تأثيل خاطئ		2
6	Basque (eu) Herri-etimologia		2
7	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Lažna etimologija		2
8	Persian (fa) ریشه‌شناسی نادرست		1
9	Slovenian (sl) Lažna etimologija		1

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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 "Etimología popular" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Russian (ru) Псевдоэтимология		1
2	Arabic (ar) تأثيل خاطئ		0
3	English (en) False etymology		0
4	Spanish (es) Etimología popular		0
5	Basque (eu) Herri-etimologia		0
6	Persian (fa) ریشه‌شناسی نادرست		0
7	French (fr) Fausse étymologie		0
8	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Lažna etimologija		0
9	Slovenian (sl) Lažna etimologija		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 "Etimología popular" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) False etymology		287
2	Spanish (es) Etimología popular		184
3	Russian (ru) Псевдоэтимология		21
4	French (fr) Fausse étymologie		18
5	Persian (fa) ریشه‌شناسی نادرست		9
6	Arabic (ar) تأثيل خاطئ		7
7	Basque (eu) Herri-etimologia		3
8	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Lažna etimologija		3
9	Slovenian (sl) Lažna etimologija		1

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic تأثيل خاطئ
en	English False etymology
es	Spanish Etimología popular
eu	Basque Herri-etimologia
fa	Persian ریشه‌شناسی نادرست
fr	French Fausse étymologie
ru	Russian Псевдоэтимология
sh	Serbo-Croatian Lažna etimologija
sl	Slovenian Lažna etimologija

Best Rank

Spanish: #19545 08.2009

Global: #134473 08.2009

Best Rank

Spanish: #14498 09.2008

Global: #2492 01.2002

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