Backlash (engineering)

Backlash - in mechanical engineering, looseness due to clearance between components. Article “Backlash (engineering)” in English Wikipedia has 23.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 7 references and 8 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.26 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Backlash (engineering)”, its content was written by 60 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 253 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 76 times in English Wikipedia and cited 338 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #65470 in June 2014
• Global: #4691 in February 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #93242 in April 2015
• Global: #85438 in April 2015

There are 14 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	Russian (ru) Мёртвый ход		33.3371
2	German (de) Spiel (Technik)		27.7804
3	Chinese (zh) 背隙		26.0763
4	English (en) Backlash (engineering)		23.89
5	French (fr) Jeu (mécanique)		23.5657
6	Arabic (ar) فوت (هندسة ميكانيكية)		16.9278
7	Japanese (ja) バックラッシュ (機械)		14.3522
8	Korean (ko) 백래시 (공학)		4.1881
9	Estonian (et) Lõtk		3.7181
10	Czech (cs) Vůle (technika)		2.4468

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Backlash (engineering)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Backlash (engineering)		1 418 461
2	Japanese (ja) バックラッシュ (機械)		826 199
3	French (fr) Jeu (mécanique)		460 017
4	German (de) Spiel (Technik)		101 671
5	Chinese (zh) 背隙		56 654
6	Korean (ko) 백래시 (공학)		53 452
7	Italian (it) Gioco (meccanica)		44 876
8	Russian (ru) Мёртвый ход		32 266
9	Dutch (nl) Speling		26 405
10	Danish (da) Slør (mekanik)		10 576

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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 "Backlash (engineering)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Backlash (engineering)		3 575
2	Japanese (ja) バックラッシュ (機械)		1 215
3	Korean (ko) 백래시 (공학)		911
4	French (fr) Jeu (mécanique)		612
5	Chinese (zh) 背隙		311
6	German (de) Spiel (Technik)		179
7	Russian (ru) Мёртвый ход		117
8	Italian (it) Gioco (meccanica)		90
9	Danish (da) Slør (mekanik)		69
10	Dutch (nl) Speling		63

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Backlash (engineering)		60
2	French (fr) Jeu (mécanique)		49
3	German (de) Spiel (Technik)		34
4	Japanese (ja) バックラッシュ (機械)		25
5	Danish (da) Slør (mekanik)		19
6	Italian (it) Gioco (meccanica)		19
7	Russian (ru) Мёртвый ход		13
8	Dutch (nl) Speling		8
9	Arabic (ar) فوت (هندسة ميكانيكية)		7
10	Estonian (et) Lõtk		5

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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 "Backlash (engineering)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) فوت (هندسة ميكانيكية)		0
2	Czech (cs) Vůle (technika)		0
3	Danish (da) Slør (mekanik)		0
4	German (de) Spiel (Technik)		0
5	English (en) Backlash (engineering)		0
6	Estonian (et) Lõtk		0
7	French (fr) Jeu (mécanique)		0
8	Italian (it) Gioco (meccanica)		0
9	Japanese (ja) バックラッシュ (機械)		0
10	Korean (ko) 백래시 (공학)		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 "Backlash (engineering)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Backlash (engineering)		76
2	German (de) Spiel (Technik)		70
3	French (fr) Jeu (mécanique)		49
4	Dutch (nl) Speling		46
5	Japanese (ja) バックラッシュ (機械)		33
6	Estonian (et) Lõtk		13
7	Italian (it) Gioco (meccanica)		13
8	Czech (cs) Vůle (technika)		8
9	Chinese (zh) 背隙		8
10	Norwegian (no) Dødgang		6

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic فوت (هندسة ميكانيكية)
cs	Czech Vůle (technika)
da	Danish Slør (mekanik)
de	German Spiel (Technik)
en	English Backlash (engineering)
et	Estonian Lõtk
fr	French Jeu (mécanique)
it	Italian Gioco (meccanica)
ja	Japanese バックラッシュ (機械)
ko	Korean 백래시 (공학)
nl	Dutch Speling
no	Norwegian Dødgang
ru	Russian Мёртвый ход
zh	Chinese 背隙

Best Rank

English: #93242 04.2015

Global: #85438 04.2015

Best Rank

English: #65470 06.2014

Global: #4691 02.2003

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