Contraction

Quality:

Contraction - shortened version of a word, syllable or word group. Article “Contraction” in Simple English Wikipedia has 17.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). 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 30 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (6884^th place) and edited by 762 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 20 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1241 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #124 in May 2005
• Global: #8175 in October 2021

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2839 in February 2013
• Global: #27967 in March 2013

There are 24 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, 2026 (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		48.209
2	French (fr) Contraction (linguistique)		46.3238
3	Korean (ko) 축약형		35.3563
4	English (en) Contraction (grammar)		34.3312
5	Min Nan (zhminnan) Kán-chheng		31.8588
6	Esperanto (eo) Lingva kuntiriĝo		25.1116
7	Turkish (tr) Kaynaşma		24.584
8	German (de) Verschmelzung (Grammatik)		24.066
9	Arabic (ar) تقليص (لغة)		23.1714
10	Belarusian (be) Кантракцыя (мовазнаўства)		20.985

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Contraction (grammar)		4 401 359
2	Spanish (es) Contracción (gramática)		817 733
3	Portuguese (pt) Contração (gramática)		256 834
4	Chinese (zh) 簡稱		85 406
5	Russian (ru) Стяжение		82 726
6	Indonesian (id) Kontraksi		74 133
7	Turkish (tr) Kaynaşma		70 037
8	German (de) Verschmelzung (Grammatik)		68 217
9	Japanese (ja) 前置詞と冠詞の縮約		47 119
10	French (fr) Contraction (linguistique)		41 152

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)		4 230
2	Chinese (zh) 簡稱		338
3	German (de) Verschmelzung (Grammatik)		272
4	Spanish (es) Contracción (gramática)		261
5	Russian (ru) Стяжение		155
6	Portuguese (pt) Contração (gramática)		141
7	French (fr) Contraction (linguistique)		137
8	Simple English (simple) Contraction		124
9	Japanese (ja) 前置詞と冠詞の縮約		63
10	Persian (fa) ادغام (زبان‌شناسی)		48

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)		353
2	Spanish (es) Contracción (gramática)		75
3	German (de) Verschmelzung (Grammatik)		49
4	Portuguese (pt) Contração (gramática)		36
5	Dutch (nl) Samentrekking (grammatica)		35
6	Chinese (zh) 簡稱		34
7	Simple English (simple) Contraction		30
8	French (fr) Contraction (linguistique)		28
9	Russian (ru) Стяжение		19
10	Turkish (tr) Kaynaşma		15

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)		2
2	French (fr) Contraction (linguistique)		1
3	Indonesian (id) Kontraksi		1
4	Arabic (ar) تقليص (لغة)		0
5	Belarusian (be) Кантракцыя (мовазнаўства)		0
6	Catalan (ca) Contracció (gramàtica)		0
7	German (de) Verschmelzung (Grammatik)		0
8	Esperanto (eo) Lingva kuntiriĝo		0
9	Spanish (es) Contracción (gramática)		0
10	Persian (fa) ادغام (زبان‌شناسی)		0

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

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