Break key

Pause/Break - Key on a PC keyboard. Article “Break key” in English Wikipedia has 45.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 29 references and 9 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.41 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Break key”, its content was written by 123 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 298 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 76 times in English Wikipedia and cited 673 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2101 in February 2002
• Global: #2506 in November 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #77547 in October 2014
• Global: #90094 in March 2010

There are 18 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	Chinese (zh) Break鍵		52.6475
2	English (en) Break key		45.8114
3	Korean (ko) Break 키		38.6947
4	Portuguese (pt) Break (tecla)		25.0889
5	Kazakh (kk) Break (перне)		22.1855
6	Persian (fa) کلید شکست		21.2088
7	Japanese (ja) ブレークキー		19.5039
8	Turkish (tr) Break tuşu		13.5082
9	Czech (cs) Klávesa Break		5.7791
10	German (de) Pause (Tastatur)		5.0174

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Break key" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Break key		1 538 623
2	Russian (ru) Break (клавиша)		290 413
3	German (de) Pause (Tastatur)		277 877
4	French (fr) Touche de pause		193 318
5	Polish (pl) Break (klawisz)		113 848
6	Chinese (zh) Break鍵		82 130
7	Japanese (ja) ブレークキー		76 283
8	Portuguese (pt) Break (tecla)		67 943
9	Czech (cs) Klávesa Break		38 715
10	Korean (ko) Break 키		34 048

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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 "Break key" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Break key		3 287
2	Russian (ru) Break (клавиша)		377
3	German (de) Pause (Tastatur)		286
4	French (fr) Touche de pause		197
5	Chinese (zh) Break鍵		185
6	Japanese (ja) ブレークキー		157
7	Polish (pl) Break (klawisz)		76
8	Korean (ko) Break 키		62
9	Italian (it) Tasto Pausa		49
10	Czech (cs) Klávesa Break		46

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Break key		123
2	German (de) Pause (Tastatur)		32
3	French (fr) Touche de pause		31
4	Russian (ru) Break (клавиша)		21
5	Czech (cs) Klávesa Break		15
6	Chinese (zh) Break鍵		13
7	Polish (pl) Break (klawisz)		10
8	Portuguese (pt) Break (tecla)		10
9	Italian (it) Tasto Pausa		7
10	Turkish (tr) Break tuşu		7

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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 "Break key" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) مفتاح إيقاف		1
2	Czech (cs) Klávesa Break		0
3	German (de) Pause (Tastatur)		0
4	English (en) Break key		0
5	Spanish (es) Inter (tecla)		0
6	Persian (fa) کلید شکست		0
7	French (fr) Touche de pause		0
8	Italian (it) Tasto Pausa		0
9	Japanese (ja) ブレークキー		0
10	Kazakh (kk) Break (перне)		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 "Break key" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Korean (ko) Break 키		83
2	English (en) Break key		76
3	Polish (pl) Break (klawisz)		53
4	Dutch (nl) Pause/break		52
5	Japanese (ja) ブレークキー		50
6	Arabic (ar) مفتاح إيقاف		47
7	French (fr) Touche de pause		45
8	Russian (ru) Break (клавиша)		42
9	Italian (it) Tasto Pausa		41
10	Chinese (zh) Break鍵		41

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic مفتاح إيقاف
cs	Czech Klávesa Break
de	German Pause (Tastatur)
en	English Break key
es	Spanish Inter (tecla)
fa	Persian کلید شکست
fr	French Touche de pause
it	Italian Tasto Pausa
ja	Japanese ブレークキー
kk	Kazakh Break (перне)
ko	Korean Break 키
nl	Dutch Pause/break
pl	Polish Break (klawisz)
pt	Portuguese Break (tecla)
ru	Russian Break (клавиша)
tr	Turkish Break tuşu
vi	Vietnamese Phím Break
zh	Chinese Break鍵

Best Rank

English: #77547 10.2014

Global: #90094 03.2010

Best Rank

English: #2101 02.2002

Global: #2506 11.2001

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