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Literal translation

Quality:

Literal translation - word-by-word translation of a text. Article “Literal translation” in Simple English Wikipedia has 2.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

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

Achievements in all the time:
Simple English Wikipedia:
The 4973rd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

Since the creation of article “Literal translation”, its content was written by 16 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 399 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 182 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 20535 times in all languages (8058th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #369 in November 2019
  • Global: #36038 in December 2024

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #1281 in June 2020
  • Global: #51752 in October 2014

There are 28 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
1English (en)
Literal translation
30.5513
2Basque (eu)
Itzulpen literal
27.6416
3Malay (ms)
Terjemahan literal
23.9529
4Hindi (hi)
शब्दानुवाद
23.9346
5Serbian (sr)
Дослован превод
23.011
6Ukrainian (uk)
Дослівний переклад
23.0036
7Turkish (tr)
Birebir çeviri
22.9428
8Vietnamese (vi)
Dịch nghĩa đen
21.9027
9Slovenian (sl)
Dobesedni prevod
20.2321
10Chinese (zh)
直译
20.1884
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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 "Literal translation" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Literal translation
1 696 054
2Indonesian (id)
Terjemahan harfiah
631 598
3Japanese (ja)
直訳と意訳
224 224
4Arabic (ar)
ترجمة حرفية
139 104
5Chinese (zh)
直译
98 264
6Simple English (simple)
Literal translation
82 536
7Russian (ru)
Дословный перевод
65 179
8Spanish (es)
Traducción literal
46 799
9Persian (fa)
ترجمه واژه‌به‌واژه
34 724
10Italian (it)
Traduzione parola per parola
32 906
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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 "Literal translation" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Literal translation
11 585
2Russian (ru)
Дословный перевод
2 707
3Simple English (simple)
Literal translation
607
4Indonesian (id)
Terjemahan harfiah
575
5Chinese (zh)
直译
451
6Japanese (ja)
直訳と意訳
441
7Spanish (es)
Traducción literal
413
8Turkish (tr)
Birebir çeviri
256
9Hindi (hi)
शब्दानुवाद
144
10Malay (ms)
Terjemahan literal
144
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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 "Literal translation" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Literal translation
126
2Japanese (ja)
直訳と意訳
34
3Indonesian (id)
Terjemahan harfiah
29
4Italian (it)
Traduzione parola per parola
29
5Chinese (zh)
直译
21
6Arabic (ar)
ترجمة حرفية
20
7Turkish (tr)
Birebir çeviri
18
8Simple English (simple)
Literal translation
16
9Spanish (es)
Traducción literal
15
10Swedish (sv)
Direktöversättning
11
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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 "Literal translation" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Indonesian (id)
Terjemahan harfiah
1
2Russian (ru)
Дословный перевод
1
3Arabic (ar)
ترجمة حرفية
0
4Azerbaijani (az)
Hərfi tərcümə
0
5English (en)
Literal translation
0
6Spanish (es)
Traducción literal
0
7Basque (eu)
Itzulpen literal
0
8Persian (fa)
ترجمه واژه‌به‌واژه
0
9French (fr)
Traduction littérale
0
10Hindi (hi)
शब्दानुवाद
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 "Literal translation" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Literal translation
12 778
2Russian (ru)
Дословный перевод
1 210
3Ukrainian (uk)
Дослівний переклад
1 196
4Spanish (es)
Traducción literal
1 025
5Indonesian (id)
Terjemahan harfiah
1 022
6Chinese (zh)
直译
809
7Thai (th)
การแปลตรงตัว
410
8Persian (fa)
ترجمه واژه‌به‌واژه
341
9Slovenian (sl)
Dobesedni prevod
316
10Malay (ms)
Terjemahan literal
228
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Scores

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Citations:
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
ترجمة حرفية
azAzerbaijani
Hərfi tərcümə
enEnglish
Literal translation
esSpanish
Traducción literal
euBasque
Itzulpen literal
faPersian
ترجمه واژه‌به‌واژه
frFrench
Traduction littérale
hiHindi
शब्दानुवाद
idIndonesian
Terjemahan harfiah
itItalian
Traduzione parola per parola
jaJapanese
直訳と意訳
koKorean
직역
laLatin
Versio ad litteram
msMalay
Terjemahan literal
plPolish
Tłumaczenie dosłowne
ruRussian
Дословный перевод
simpleSimple English
Literal translation
skSlovak
Doslovný preklad
slSlovenian
Dobesedni prevod
srSerbian
Дослован превод
svSwedish
Direktöversättning
thThai
การแปลตรงตัว
trTurkish
Birebir çeviri
ukUkrainian
Дослівний переклад
uzUzbek
Soʻzma-soʻz tarjima
viVietnamese
Dịch nghĩa đen
zhChinese
直译
zhminnanMin Nan
Ti̍t-e̍k

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#1281
06.2020
Global:
#51752
10.2014

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#369
11.2019
Global:
#36038
12.2024

Local 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 Literal translation from Wikipedia articles about Cleopatra, Philosophy, Haitsu-tomo no kai, Odnoklassniki and Echidna. Whereas reading the article about Literal translation people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Translation, Translation studies, Interpretation, Metaphrase and Calque.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

zh: 直译
ko: 직역
zhminnan: Ti̍t-e̍k

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