Defendant

Defendant - accused party in a legal case. Article “Defendant” in English Wikipedia has 17.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 3 references and 5 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Defendant”, its content was written by 119 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 503 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1018 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3035 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #4539 in April 2003
• Global: #9483 in February 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #52573 in March 2010
• Global: #60447 in March 2010

There are 31 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	French (fr) Accusé		24.2227
2	Hindi (hi) अभियुक्त		23.8171
3	Belarusian (be) Адказчык		23.7225
4	Croatian (hr) Optuženik		22.061
5	German (de) Beklagter		21.1879
6	Estonian (et) Kostja		18.917
7	Finnish (fi) Vastaaja		18.7581
8	Indonesian (id) Terdakwa		18.5634
9	Russian (ru) Ответчик		18.2915
10	English (en) Defendant		17.1383

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Defendant		1 854 385
2	Portuguese (pt) Réu		472 415
3	Russian (ru) Ответчик		289 952
4	Japanese (ja) 被告		230 861
5	Italian (it) Convenuto		155 655
6	Polish (pl) Pozwany		128 583
7	German (de) Beklagter		121 452
8	Chinese (zh) 被告		113 515
9	Persian (fa) خوانده		86 649
10	Turkish (tr) Sanık		57 804

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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 "Defendant" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Defendant		1 912
2	Japanese (ja) 被告		313
3	Persian (fa) خوانده		310
4	Russian (ru) Ответчик		245
5	Portuguese (pt) Réu		241
6	Korean (ko) 피고		230
7	Chinese (zh) 被告		220
8	Hindi (hi) अभियुक्त		103
9	German (de) Beklagter		101
10	Turkish (tr) Sanık		86

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Defendant		119
2	German (de) Beklagter		45
3	Japanese (ja) 被告		27
4	French (fr) Accusé		25
5	Italian (it) Convenuto		25
6	Russian (ru) Ответчик		23
7	Dutch (nl) Gedaagde		22
8	Portuguese (pt) Réu		21
9	Chinese (zh) 被告		21
10	Vietnamese (vi) Bị cáo		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 "Defendant" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Hebrew (he) נאשם		1
2	Arabic (ar) متهم		0
3	Azerbaijani (az) Müttəhim		0
4	Belarusian (be) Адказчык		0
5	Czech (cs) Žalovaný		0
6	German (de) Beklagter		0
7	English (en) Defendant		0
8	Estonian (et) Kostja		0
9	Persian (fa) خوانده		0
10	Finnish (fi) Vastaaja		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 "Defendant" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Defendant		1 018
2	Portuguese (pt) Réu		264
3	Japanese (ja) 被告		256
4	Chinese (zh) 被告		248
5	French (fr) Accusé		175
6	Korean (ko) 피고		167
7	Simple English (simple) Defendant		95
8	German (de) Beklagter		90
9	Russian (ru) Ответчик		80
10	Hebrew (he) נאשם		71

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic متهم
az	Azerbaijani Müttəhim
be	Belarusian Адказчык
cs	Czech Žalovaný
de	German Beklagter
en	English Defendant
et	Estonian Kostja
fa	Persian خوانده
fi	Finnish Vastaaja
fr	French Accusé
he	Hebrew נאשם
hi	Hindi अभियुक्त
hr	Croatian Optuženik
hy	Armenian Ամբաստանյալ
id	Indonesian Terdakwa
it	Italian Convenuto
ja	Japanese 被告
ko	Korean 피고
nl	Dutch Gedaagde
pl	Polish Pozwany
pt	Portuguese Réu
ru	Russian Ответчик
simple	Simple English Defendant
sk	Slovak Žalovaný
sr	Serbian Okrivljena osoba
sv	Swedish Svarande
tr	Turkish Sanık
uk	Ukrainian Відповідач
ur	Urdu ملزم
vi	Vietnamese Bị cáo
zh	Chinese 被告

Best Rank

English: #52573 03.2010

Global: #60447 03.2010

Best Rank

English: #4539 04.2003

Global: #9483 02.2002

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