Retronym

Retronym - new word created to differentiate between two words, where previously no clarification was required. Article “Retronym” in Simple English Wikipedia has 11.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

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

Since the creation of article “Retronym”, its content was written by 2 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 672 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 3 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 888 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #2288 in September 2020
• Global: #557 in April 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #10853 in November 2025
• Global: #67386 in July 2017

There are 27 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	Ukrainian (uk) Ретронім		30.2701
2	Persian (fa) پس‌نام		29.4506
3	Romanian (ro) Retronym		29.3305
4	English (en) Retronym		26.4753
5	Korean (ko) 레트로님		22.4613
6	Japanese (ja) レトロニム		21.8778
7	Hungarian (hu) Retronímia		21.7092
8	Swedish (sv) Retronym		20.3302
9	Italian (it) Retronimo		19.4173
10	Esperanto (eo) Retronimo		17.6997

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Retronym		1 246 484
2	Japanese (ja) レトロニム		561 383
3	German (de) Retronym		82 332
4	French (fr) Rétronymie		74 345
5	Russian (ru) Ретроним		71 944
6	Spanish (es) Retrónimo		47 849
7	Swedish (sv) Retronym		33 057
8	Chinese (zh) 返璞词		28 654
9	Italian (it) Retronimo		19 062
10	Portuguese (pt) Retrónimo		17 334

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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 "Retronym" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Retronym		3 915
2	Japanese (ja) レトロニム		2 573
3	Russian (ru) Ретроним		231
4	Chinese (zh) 返璞词		214
5	German (de) Retronym		144
6	Spanish (es) Retrónimo		83
7	French (fr) Rétronymie		81
8	Hungarian (hu) Retronímia		72
9	Swedish (sv) Retronym		58
10	Italian (it) Retronimo		51

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Retronym		278
2	French (fr) Rétronymie		74
3	German (de) Retronym		62
4	Japanese (ja) レトロニム		50
5	Swedish (sv) Retronym		30
6	Spanish (es) Retrónimo		27
7	Russian (ru) Ретроним		21
8	Chinese (zh) 返璞词		21
9	Italian (it) Retronimo		16
10	Bulgarian (bg) Ретроним		10

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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 "Retronym" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Retronym		2
2	English (en) Retronym		1
3	Chinese (zh) 返璞词		1
4	Arabic (ar) مركب نقلي		0
5	Bulgarian (bg) Ретроним		0
6	Catalan (ca) Retrònim		0
7	Esperanto (eo) Retronimo		0
8	Spanish (es) Retrónimo		0
9	Persian (fa) پس‌نام		0
10	French (fr) Rétronymie		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 "Retronym" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Retronym		194
2	Japanese (ja) レトロニム		177
3	French (fr) Rétronymie		140
4	German (de) Retronym		55
5	Swedish (sv) Retronym		45
6	Chinese (zh) 返璞词		39
7	Russian (ru) Ретроним		34
8	Spanish (es) Retrónimo		30
9	Korean (ko) 레트로님		24
10	Portuguese (pt) Retrónimo		21

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic مركب نقلي
bg	Bulgarian Ретроним
ca	Catalan Retrònim
de	German Retronym
en	English Retronym
eo	Esperanto Retronimo
es	Spanish Retrónimo
fa	Persian پس‌نام
fr	French Rétronymie
gl	Galician Retrónimo
hu	Hungarian Retronímia
id	Indonesian Retronim
it	Italian Retronimo
ja	Japanese レトロニム
ko	Korean 레트로님
nl	Dutch Retroniem
no	Norwegian Retronym
pl	Polish Retronim
pt	Portuguese Retrónimo
ro	Romanian Retronym
ru	Russian Ретроним
simple	Simple English Retronym
sl	Slovenian Retronim
sr	Serbian Ретроним
sv	Swedish Retronym
uk	Ukrainian Ретронім
zh	Chinese 返璞词

Best Rank

Simple English: #10853 11.2025

Global: #67386 07.2017

Best Rank

Simple English: #2288 09.2020

Global: #557 04.2001

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