Cardinal virtues

Cardinal virtues - set of four virtues recognized in the writings of Classical Antiquity: prudence, justice, fortitude, temperance. Article “Cardinal virtues” in English Wikipedia has 62.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 24 references and 17 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2026 the article “Cardinal virtues” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Cardinal virtues”, its content was written by 221 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 902 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 958 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2982 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2847 in September 2004
• Global: #4982 in January 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #38287 in October 2022
• Global: #21986 in February 2019

There are 30 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	English (en) Cardinal virtues		62.3445
2	Polish (pl) Cnoty kardynalne		50.0598
3	German (de) Kardinaltugend		48.606
4	French (fr) Vertu cardinale		37.3347
5	Slovenian (sl) Kardinalne vrline		34.2097
6	Korean (ko) 추덕		30.8625
7	Norwegian (no) Kardinaldyd		28.4034
8	Latin (la) Virtutes cardinales		28.1399
9	Indonesian (id) Kebajikan pokok		26.3184
10	Swedish (sv) Kardinaldygder		25.1

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Cardinal virtues" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Cardinal virtues		4 106 249
2	Spanish (es) Virtudes cardinales		2 454 480
3	Italian (it) Virtù cardinali		1 570 674
4	German (de) Kardinaltugend		1 341 582
5	French (fr) Vertu cardinale		944 310
6	Polish (pl) Cnoty kardynalne		633 192
7	Portuguese (pt) Virtudes cardinais		504 796
8	Dutch (nl) Kardinale deugden		228 970
9	Japanese (ja) 枢要徳		184 349
10	Russian (ru) Кардинальные добродетели		121 770

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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 "Cardinal virtues" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Cardinal virtues		11 848
2	German (de) Kardinaltugend		2 607
3	Spanish (es) Virtudes cardinales		2 144
4	French (fr) Vertu cardinale		2 016
5	Italian (it) Virtù cardinali		1 812
6	Japanese (ja) 枢要徳		902
7	Portuguese (pt) Virtudes cardinais		765
8	Dutch (nl) Kardinale deugden		764
9	Polish (pl) Cnoty kardynalne		593
10	Chinese (zh) 枢德		518

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Cardinal virtues		221
2	German (de) Kardinaltugend		145
3	Italian (it) Virtù cardinali		93
4	French (fr) Vertu cardinale		83
5	Spanish (es) Virtudes cardinales		56
6	Dutch (nl) Kardinale deugden		45
7	Polish (pl) Cnoty kardynalne		45
8	Portuguese (pt) Virtudes cardinais		30
9	Danish (da) Kardinaldyder		28
10	Swedish (sv) Kardinaldygder		20

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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 "Cardinal virtues" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Cardinal virtues		1
2	French (fr) Vertu cardinale		1
3	Japanese (ja) 枢要徳		1
4	Romanian (ro) Virtuți cardinale		1
5	Arabic (ar) الفضائل العليا		0
6	Catalan (ca) Virtuts cardinals		0
7	Czech (cs) Kardinální ctnosti		0
8	Danish (da) Kardinaldyder		0
9	German (de) Kardinaltugend		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Kardinalaj virtoj		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 "Cardinal virtues" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Cardinal virtues		958
2	German (de) Kardinaltugend		317
3	Swedish (sv) Kardinaldygder		263
4	Italian (it) Virtù cardinali		249
5	French (fr) Vertu cardinale		241
6	Spanish (es) Virtudes cardinales		167
7	Indonesian (id) Kebajikan pokok		125
8	Portuguese (pt) Virtudes cardinais		107
9	Polish (pl) Cnoty kardynalne		89
10	Dutch (nl) Kardinale deugden		59

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic الفضائل العليا
ca	Catalan Virtuts cardinals
cs	Czech Kardinální ctnosti
da	Danish Kardinaldyder
de	German Kardinaltugend
en	English Cardinal virtues
eo	Esperanto Kardinalaj virtoj
es	Spanish Virtudes cardinales
fa	Persian فضائل اساسی
fi	Finnish Kardinaalihyveet
fr	French Vertu cardinale
hi	Hindi मुख्य (कार्डिनल) सद्गुण
hy	Armenian Կարդինալ առաքինություններ
id	Indonesian Kebajikan pokok
it	Italian Virtù cardinali
ja	Japanese 枢要徳
ko	Korean 추덕
la	Latin Virtutes cardinales
lt	Lithuanian Didžiosios dorybės
nl	Dutch Kardinale deugden
no	Norwegian Kardinaldyd
pl	Polish Cnoty kardynalne
pt	Portuguese Virtudes cardinais
ro	Romanian Virtuți cardinale
ru	Russian Кардинальные добродетели
sk	Slovak Kardinálne cnosti
sl	Slovenian Kardinalne vrline
sv	Swedish Kardinaldygder
th	Thai คุณธรรมหลัก
zh	Chinese 枢德

Best Rank

English: #38287 10.2022

Global: #21986 02.2019

Best Rank

English: #2847 09.2004

Global: #4982 01.2003

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