Contraction

Quality:

Contraction - shortened version of a word, syllable or word group. Article “Contraction” in Simple English Wikipedia has 18.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 1 references and 8 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Contraction”, its content was written by 26 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (8404^th place) and edited by 736 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 23 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2488 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #124 in May 2005
• Global: #8144 in October 2021

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2832 in February 2013
• Global: #27798 in March 2013

There are 22 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	Romanian (ro) Contragere		48.3634
2	French (fr) Contraction (linguistique)		46.3992
3	English (en) Contraction (grammar)		34.5706
4	Min Nan (zhminnan) Kán-chheng		31.6848
5	Esperanto (eo) Lingva kuntiriĝo		25.3095
6	Turkish (tr) Kaynaşma		24.5416
7	German (de) Verschmelzung (Grammatik)		24.2689
8	Arabic (ar) تقليص (لغة)		23.174
9	Simple English (simple) Contraction		18.7665
10	Catalan (ca) Contracció (gramàtica)		15.7918

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Contraction (grammar)		4 305 436
2	Spanish (es) Contracción (gramática)		811 836
3	Portuguese (pt) Contração (gramática)		253 857
4	Chinese (zh) 簡稱		81 494
5	Russian (ru) Стяжение		78 272
6	Indonesian (id) Kontraksi		73 300
7	Turkish (tr) Kaynaşma		68 404
8	German (de) Verschmelzung (Grammatik)		65 884
9	Japanese (ja) 前置詞と冠詞の縮約		45 859
10	French (fr) Contraction (linguistique)		39 026

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) Contraction (grammar)		7 423
2	Chinese (zh) 簡稱		450
3	Spanish (es) Contracción (gramática)		435
4	Portuguese (pt) Contração (gramática)		303
5	Russian (ru) Стяжение		302
6	French (fr) Contraction (linguistique)		202
7	Turkish (tr) Kaynaşma		202
8	Simple English (simple) Contraction		193
9	German (de) Verschmelzung (Grammatik)		186
10	Indonesian (id) Kontraksi		117

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Contraction (grammar)		345
2	Spanish (es) Contracción (gramática)		75
3	German (de) Verschmelzung (Grammatik)		49
4	Portuguese (pt) Contração (gramática)		36
5	Dutch (nl) Samentrekking (grammatica)		34
6	Chinese (zh) 簡稱		32
7	French (fr) Contraction (linguistique)		26
8	Simple English (simple) Contraction		26
9	Russian (ru) Стяжение		19
10	Japanese (ja) 前置詞と冠詞の縮約		14

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) Contraction (grammar)		1
2	Arabic (ar) تقليص (لغة)		0
3	Catalan (ca) Contracció (gramàtica)		0
4	German (de) Verschmelzung (Grammatik)		0
5	Esperanto (eo) Lingva kuntiriĝo		0
6	Spanish (es) Contracción (gramática)		0
7	Persian (fa) ادغام (زبان‌شناسی)		0
8	French (fr) Contraction (linguistique)		0
9	Indonesian (id) Kontraksi		0
10	Japanese (ja) 前置詞と冠詞の縮約		0

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

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