Ball bearing

Ball bearing - type of rolling-element bearing that uses balls to reduce rotational friction and support radial and axial loads. Article “Ball bearing” in English Wikipedia has 59.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 33 references and 21 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 6.65 points.

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

In June 2026 the article “Ball bearing” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 7 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Ball bearing”, its content was written by 332 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 811 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 519 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1694 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #7901 in March 2003
• Global: #12652 in March 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #5816 in April 2013
• Global: #12402 in April 2013

There are 25 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, 2026 (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	Spanish (es) Rodamiento de bolas		60.9259
2	English (en) Ball bearing		59.8389
3	Korean (ko) 볼 베어링		52.1061
4	Romanian (ro) Rulment		41.815
5	Arabic (ar) محمل الكريات		41.2345
6	Croatian (hr) Kuglični ležaj		39.6421
7	Swedish (sv) Kullager		36.917
8	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Kuglični ležaj		35.0574
9	Ukrainian (uk) Вальниця кочення		31.9323
10	Norwegian (no) Kulelager		28.8508

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Ball bearing" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ball bearing		4 374 602
2	Japanese (ja) 玉軸受		685 412
3	Portuguese (pt) Rolamento		361 808
4	Swedish (sv) Kullager		340 314
5	Dutch (nl) Kogellager		301 296
6	Persian (fa) بلبرینگ		232 876
7	Polish (pl) Łożysko kulkowe		225 913
8	Romanian (ro) Rulment		128 535
9	Chinese (zh) 滾珠軸承		119 405
10	Czech (cs) Kuličkové ložisko		91 030

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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 "Ball bearing" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ball bearing		6 860
2	Persian (fa) بلبرینگ		834
3	Japanese (ja) 玉軸受		732
4	Swedish (sv) Kullager		452
5	Chinese (zh) 滾珠軸承		265
6	Dutch (nl) Kogellager		256
7	Polish (pl) Łożysko kulkowe		252
8	Spanish (es) Rodamiento de bolas		244
9	Romanian (ro) Rulment		144
10	Finnish (fi) Kuulalaakeri		142

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ball bearing		332
2	Swedish (sv) Kullager		70
3	Dutch (nl) Kogellager		59
4	Persian (fa) بلبرینگ		49
5	Portuguese (pt) Rolamento		45
6	Hebrew (he) מסב כדורי		34
7	Danish (da) Kugleleje		27
8	Polish (pl) Łożysko kulkowe		25
9	Norwegian (no) Kulelager		21
10	Ukrainian (uk) Вальниця кочення		18

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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 "Ball bearing" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Romanian (ro) Rulment		2
2	Arabic (ar) محمل الكريات		1
3	English (en) Ball bearing		1
4	Basque (eu) Errodamendu boladun		1
5	Persian (fa) بلبرینگ		1
6	Croatian (hr) Kuglični ležaj		1
7	Azerbaijani (az) Diyircəkli yastıq		0
8	Czech (cs) Kuličkové ložisko		0
9	Danish (da) Kugleleje		0
10	Spanish (es) Rodamiento de bolas		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 "Ball bearing" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Ball bearing		519
2	Swedish (sv) Kullager		204
3	Japanese (ja) 玉軸受		132
4	Dutch (nl) Kogellager		131
5	Persian (fa) بلبرینگ		93
6	Arabic (ar) محمل الكريات		64
7	Portuguese (pt) Rolamento		58
8	Czech (cs) Kuličkové ložisko		57
9	Ukrainian (uk) Вальниця кочення		57
10	Norwegian (no) Kulelager		53

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic محمل الكريات
az	Azerbaijani Diyircəkli yastıq
cs	Czech Kuličkové ložisko
da	Danish Kugleleje
en	English Ball bearing
es	Spanish Rodamiento de bolas
eu	Basque Errodamendu boladun
fa	Persian بلبرینگ
fi	Finnish Kuulalaakeri
he	Hebrew מסב כדורי
hr	Croatian Kuglični ležaj
id	Indonesian Laher
ja	Japanese 玉軸受
ko	Korean 볼 베어링
nl	Dutch Kogellager
no	Norwegian Kulelager
pl	Polish Łożysko kulkowe
pt	Portuguese Rolamento
ro	Romanian Rulment
sh	Serbo-Croatian Kuglični ležaj
sv	Swedish Kullager
ta	Tamil கோளப் பந்து அமைப்பு
tr	Turkish Rulmanlı yatak
uk	Ukrainian Вальниця кочення
zh	Chinese 滾珠軸承

Best Rank

English: #5816 04.2013

Global: #12402 04.2013

Best Rank

English: #7901 03.2003

Global: #12652 03.2003

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