whisky

Summary

whisky ranks in the top 0.37% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,156 views/month, #288 of 77,819).^[1]

Key Facts

• whisky is a type of grain spirit^[2].
• whisky's Commons category is recorded as Whisky^[3].
• whisky's country of origin is recorded as Ireland^[4].
• whisky's country of origin is recorded as Scotland^[5].
• whisky's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Whisky^[6].
• whisky's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia^[7].
• whisky's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)^[8].
• whisky's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[9].
• whisky's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)^[10].
• whisky's described by source is recorded as The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge^[11].
• whisky's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition^[12].
• whisky's described by source is recorded as The New Student's Reference Work^[13].
• whisky's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Whiskey'}^[14].
• whisky's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Whisky'}^[15].
• whisky's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4^[16].
• whisky's Wikimedia outline is recorded as Outline of whisky^[17].
• whisky's 2022 Harmonized System Code is recorded as 220830^[18].

Body

Definition and Type

whisky is a type of grain spirit^[2].

Influence

Things named for whisky include Whisky Bay^[19], a bay^[20].

Why It Matters

whisky ranks in the top 0.37% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,156 views/month, #288 of 77,819).^[1] whisky has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[21] whisky is known by 14 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[22]

Entities named for whisky include Whisky Bay^[19], a bay^[20].