Tautology (rhetoric)

Quality:

Tautology - statement which repeats the same idea, using near-synonymous morphemes, words, or phrases. Article “Tautology (rhetoric)” in Simple English Wikipedia has 2.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

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

Since the creation of article “Tautology (rhetoric)”, its content was written by 16 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1050 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 2 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1471 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1198 in June 2008
• Global: #396 in June 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #4660 in February 2010
• Global: #9367 in February 2010

There are 34 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	Hungarian (hu) Tautológia (nyelvészet)		38.7498
2	German (de) Tautologie (Sprache)		35.3823
3	Romanian (ro) Tautologie		34.4662
4	French (fr) Tautologie (rhétorique)		31.1336
5	Croatian (hr) Tautologija (retorika)		27.0298
6	English (en) Tautology (language)		24.7865
7	Chinese (zh) 同義反覆		24.4071
8	Norwegian (no) Tautologi (språk)		24.1415
9	Hindi (hi) अनुलाप		23.3461
10	Indonesian (id) Tautologi		22.928

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Tautology (language)		3 042 119
2	German (de) Tautologie (Sprache)		1 727 737
3	Japanese (ja) トートロジー		879 193
4	Russian (ru) Тавтология (риторика)		850 090
5	Portuguese (pt) Tautologia		832 272
6	Dutch (nl) Tautologie (stijlfiguur)		755 524
7	Spanish (es) Tautología (retórica)		635 052
8	Polish (pl) Tautologia (językoznawstwo)		525 492
9	Swedish (sv) Tautologi (språkvetenskap)		306 827
10	Ukrainian (uk) Тавтологія (риторика)		223 994

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) Tautology (language)		7 867
2	German (de) Tautologie (Sprache)		3 180
3	Japanese (ja) トートロジー		2 575
4	Russian (ru) Тавтология (риторика)		1 399
5	French (fr) Tautologie (rhétorique)		1 164
6	Dutch (nl) Tautologie (stijlfiguur)		644
7	Swedish (sv) Tautologi (språkvetenskap)		590
8	Spanish (es) Tautología (retórica)		566
9	Portuguese (pt) Tautologia		372
10	Romanian (ro) Tautologie		334

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Tautology (language)		349
2	German (de) Tautologie (Sprache)		146
3	Dutch (nl) Tautologie (stijlfiguur)		85
4	Russian (ru) Тавтология (риторика)		70
5	Swedish (sv) Tautologi (språkvetenskap)		61
6	Japanese (ja) トートロジー		57
7	Portuguese (pt) Tautologia		48
8	Polish (pl) Tautologia (językoznawstwo)		19
9	Spanish (es) Tautología (retórica)		17
10	Hebrew (he) טאוטולוגיה (ספרות)		17

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	Polish (pl) Tautologia (językoznawstwo)		1
2	Arabic (ar) حشو (بلاغة)		0
3	Azerbaijani (az) Tavtologiya		0
4	Belarusian (be) Таўталогія		0
5	Bulgarian (bg) Тавтология (език)		0
6	Catalan (ca) Tautologia (retòrica)		0
7	German (de) Tautologie (Sprache)		0
8	English (en) Tautology (language)		0
9	Spanish (es) Tautología (retórica)		0
10	Basque (eu) Tautologia (erretorika)		0

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

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