False etymology

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False etymology

Quality:

False etymology - popularly held but false belief about the origin or derivation of a specific word. Article “False etymology” in English Wikipedia has 22.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 9 references and 4 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “False etymology”, its content was written by 218 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 264 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 287 times in English Wikipedia and cited 533 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #2005 in January 2005
  • Global: #2492 in January 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #109231 in January 2008
  • Global: #134473 in August 2009

There are 9 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
1Spanish (es)
Etimología popular
29.4579
2Russian (ru)
Псевдоэтимология
27.1351
3French (fr)
Fausse étymologie
23.0124
4English (en)
False etymology
22.1024
5Arabic (ar)
تأثيل خاطئ
20.511
6Basque (eu)
Herri-etimologia
17.7141
7Serbo-Croatian (sh)
Lažna etimologija
13.434
8Slovenian (sl)
Lažna etimologija
2.5297
9Persian (fa)
ریشه‌شناسی نادرست
1.0686
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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 "False etymology" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
False etymology
847 151
2Spanish (es)
Etimología popular
291 374
3French (fr)
Fausse étymologie
7 664
4Russian (ru)
Псевдоэтимология
6 930
5Serbo-Croatian (sh)
Lažna etimologija
1 623
6Arabic (ar)
تأثيل خاطئ
1 249
7Slovenian (sl)
Lažna etimologija
289
8Persian (fa)
ریشه‌شناسی نادرست
230
9Basque (eu)
Herri-etimologia
183
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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 "False etymology" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
False etymology
4 136
2Spanish (es)
Etimología popular
364
3Russian (ru)
Псевдоэтимология
205
4French (fr)
Fausse étymologie
80
5Arabic (ar)
تأثيل خاطئ
17
6Persian (fa)
ریشه‌شناسی نادرست
16
7Slovenian (sl)
Lažna etimologija
15
8Serbo-Croatian (sh)
Lažna etimologija
14
9Basque (eu)
Herri-etimologia
11
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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 "False etymology" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
False etymology
218
2Spanish (es)
Etimología popular
26
3Russian (ru)
Псевдоэтимология
7
4French (fr)
Fausse étymologie
5
5Arabic (ar)
تأثيل خاطئ
2
6Basque (eu)
Herri-etimologia
2
7Serbo-Croatian (sh)
Lažna etimologija
2
8Persian (fa)
ریشه‌شناسی نادرست
1
9Slovenian (sl)
Lažna etimologija
1
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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 "False etymology" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Russian (ru)
Псевдоэтимология
1
2Arabic (ar)
تأثيل خاطئ
0
3English (en)
False etymology
0
4Spanish (es)
Etimología popular
0
5Basque (eu)
Herri-etimologia
0
6Persian (fa)
ریشه‌شناسی نادرست
0
7French (fr)
Fausse étymologie
0
8Serbo-Croatian (sh)
Lažna etimologija
0
9Slovenian (sl)
Lažna etimologija
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 "False etymology" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
False etymology
287
2Spanish (es)
Etimología popular
184
3Russian (ru)
Псевдоэтимология
21
4French (fr)
Fausse étymologie
18
5Persian (fa)
ریشه‌شناسی نادرست
9
6Arabic (ar)
تأثيل خاطئ
7
7Basque (eu)
Herri-etimologia
3
8Serbo-Croatian (sh)
Lažna etimologija
3
9Slovenian (sl)
Lažna etimologija
1
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
تأثيل خاطئ
enEnglish
False etymology
esSpanish
Etimología popular
euBasque
Herri-etimologia
faPersian
ریشه‌شناسی نادرست
frFrench
Fausse étymologie
ruRussian
Псевдоэтимология
shSerbo-Croatian
Lažna etimologija
slSlovenian
Lažna etimologija

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#109231
01.2008
Global:
#134473
08.2009

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#2005
01.2005
Global:
#2492
01.2002

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on False etymology from Wikipedia articles about Backronym, Folk etymology, Sabotage, The real McCoy and International Organization for Standardization. Whereas reading the article about False etymology people most often go to Wikipedia articles on List of common false etymologies of English words, Folk etymology, Chinese word for "crisis", Bongo-Bongo and Eggcorn.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

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