Punta della lingua

Tip-of-the-tongue - phenomenon of failing to retrieve a word from memory, combined with partial recall and the feeling that retrieval is imminent. Article “Punta della lingua” in Italian Wikipedia has 66.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 144 references and 19 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Italian) language version.

Since the creation of article “Punta della lingua”, its content was written by 8 registered users of Italian Wikipedia and edited by 370 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 7 times in Italian Wikipedia and cited 624 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Italian): #4572 in February 2022
• Global: #28105 in October 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Italian): #185830 in February 2022
• Global: #43472 in September 2015

There are 20 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) Tip of the tongue		79.5464
2	Ukrainian (uk) На кінчику язика		66.9793
3	Italian (it) Punta della lingua		66.4319
4	Turkish (tr) Dilinin ucunda fenomeni		41.8462
5	German (de) Zungenspitzenphänomen		32.8538
6	Chinese (zh) 舌尖现象		32.5347
7	Armenian (hy) Լեզվի ծայրին		28.6448
8	Russian (ru) На кончике языка		27.4282
9	Arabic (ar) طرف اللسان		25.8273
10	Indonesian (id) Ujung lidah		24.6105

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Punta della lingua" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Tip of the tongue		1 768 629
2	Russian (ru) На кончике языка		431 854
3	Japanese (ja) 舌先現象		82 951
4	Spanish (es) En la punta de la lengua		75 977
5	Chinese (zh) 舌尖现象		45 471
6	German (de) Zungenspitzenphänomen		40 224
7	Finnish (fi) Presque vu		33 705
8	Arabic (ar) طرف اللسان		20 749
9	French (fr) Mot sur le bout de la langue		14 756
10	Hungarian (hu) „Nyelvem hegyén” jelenség		14 195

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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 "Punta della lingua" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Tip of the tongue		3 764
2	Russian (ru) На кончике языка		1 052
3	Japanese (ja) 舌先現象		351
4	Chinese (zh) 舌尖现象		204
5	Spanish (es) En la punta de la lengua		95
6	German (de) Zungenspitzenphänomen		90
7	Korean (ko) 설단 현상		74
8	French (fr) Mot sur le bout de la langue		72
9	Czech (cs) Presque vu		69
10	Hungarian (hu) „Nyelvem hegyén” jelenség		63

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Tip of the tongue		181
2	Russian (ru) На кончике языка		34
3	Japanese (ja) 舌先現象		22
4	Chinese (zh) 舌尖现象		19
5	Hungarian (hu) „Nyelvem hegyén” jelenség		18
6	German (de) Zungenspitzenphänomen		14
7	French (fr) Mot sur le bout de la langue		12
8	Finnish (fi) Presque vu		10
9	Ukrainian (uk) На кінчику язика		10
10	Spanish (es) En la punta de la lengua		9

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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 "Punta della lingua" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) طرف اللسان		1
2	Chinese (zh) 舌尖现象		1
3	Azerbaijani (az) Dilin ucunda		0
4	Czech (cs) Presque vu		0
5	German (de) Zungenspitzenphänomen		0
6	English (en) Tip of the tongue		0
7	Spanish (es) En la punta de la lengua		0
8	Persian (fa) واژه‌فراموشی		0
9	Finnish (fi) Presque vu		0
10	French (fr) Mot sur le bout de la langue		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 "Punta della lingua" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Tip of the tongue		272
2	Arabic (ar) طرف اللسان		117
3	Chinese (zh) 舌尖现象		70
4	Turkish (tr) Dilinin ucunda fenomeni		57
5	Persian (fa) واژه‌فراموشی		33
6	Russian (ru) На кончике языка		28
7	Italian (it) Punta della lingua		7
8	German (de) Zungenspitzenphänomen		6
9	Korean (ko) 설단 현상		6
10	Spanish (es) En la punta de la lengua		5

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic طرف اللسان
az	Azerbaijani Dilin ucunda
cs	Czech Presque vu
de	German Zungenspitzenphänomen
en	English Tip of the tongue
es	Spanish En la punta de la lengua
fa	Persian واژه‌فراموشی
fi	Finnish Presque vu
fr	French Mot sur le bout de la langue
hu	Hungarian „Nyelvem hegyén” jelenség
hy	Armenian Լեզվի ծայրին
id	Indonesian Ujung lidah
it	Italian Punta della lingua
ja	Japanese 舌先現象
ko	Korean 설단 현상
pl	Polish Zjawisko końca języka
ru	Russian На кончике языка
tr	Turkish Dilinin ucunda fenomeni
uk	Ukrainian На кінчику язика
zh	Chinese 舌尖现象

Best Rank

Italian: #185830 02.2022

Global: #43472 09.2015

Best Rank

Italian: #4572 02.2022

Global: #28105 10.2013

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