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chain letter

message that attempts to convince the recipient to make a number of copies and pass them on to a certain number of recipients
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chain letter

Summary

chain letter ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (396 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • chain letter's image is recorded as Chain Letter.jpg[2].
  • chain letter's subclass of is recorded as letter[3].
  • chain letter's subclass of is recorded as message[4].
  • chain letter's Commons category is recorded as Chain letters[5].
  • chain letter's pronunciation audio is recorded as LL-Q804899-Valriu-cadena de missatges.wav[6].
  • chain letter's pronunciation audio is recorded as LL-Q7026 (cat)-Viqtor29-cadena de missatges.wav[7].
  • chain letter's pronunciation audio is recorded as LL-Q7026 (cat)-Carme Oriol-cadena de missatges.wav[8].
  • chain letter's has part is recorded as Q130292876[9].
  • chain letter's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0bt4z[10].
  • chain letter's PolitiFact people and groups ID is recorded as chain-email[11].
  • chain letter's YSO ID is recorded as 21796[12].
  • chain letter's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as chain-letters[13].
  • chain letter's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 14767939[14].
  • chain letter's Lex ID is recorded as kædebrev[15].
  • chain letter's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 06638246-n[16].
  • chain letter's WikiKids ID is recorded as Kettingbrief[17].

Why It Matters

chain letter ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (396 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] It is known by 33 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . YSO-Wikidata mapping project. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . GF WordNet. wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_chain-letter_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{chain letter}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/chain-letter}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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