Dictionary attack

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Dictionary attack

Quality:

Dictionary attack - technique for defeating a cipher or authentication mechanism by trying to determine its decryption key or passphrase by trying hundreds or sometimes millions of likely possibilities, such as words in a dictionary. Article “Dictionary attack” in English Wikipedia has 17.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 6 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.94 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Dictionary attack”, its content was written by 136 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 485 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 74 times in English Wikipedia and cited 432 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #1310 in October 2002
  • Global: #3131 in October 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #40886 in March 2009
  • Global: #51982 in March 2009

There are 23 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Ukrainian (uk)
Перебір за словником
31.7402
2Russian (ru)
Перебор по словарю
27.9538
3English (en)
Dictionary attack
17.8519
4Thai (th)
การโจมตีด้วยคำจากพจนานุกรม
15.7625
5Simple English (simple)
Dictionary attack
15.674
6German (de)
Wörterbuchangriff
15.5248
7Persian (fa)
حمله لغت‌نامه‌ای
14.0589
8Portuguese (pt)
Ataque de dicionário
14.0207
9Chinese (zh)
字典攻擊
12.5638
10Korean (ko)
사전 공격
10.6059
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Dictionary attack" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Dictionary attack
1 565 726
2French (fr)
Attaque par dictionnaire
201 087
3German (de)
Wörterbuchangriff
192 641
4Japanese (ja)
辞書攻撃
179 456
5Spanish (es)
Ataque de diccionario
146 639
6Russian (ru)
Перебор по словарю
96 193
7Polish (pl)
Atak słownikowy
84 905
8Italian (it)
Attacco a dizionario
76 590
9Korean (ko)
사전 공격
18 976
10Czech (cs)
Slovníkový útok
15 757
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Dictionary attack" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Dictionary attack
3 297
2Italian (it)
Attacco a dizionario
377
3German (de)
Wörterbuchangriff
354
4French (fr)
Attaque par dictionnaire
250
5Simple English (simple)
Dictionary attack
213
6Russian (ru)
Перебор по словарю
195
7Japanese (ja)
辞書攻撃
150
8Spanish (es)
Ataque de diccionario
82
9Chinese (zh)
字典攻擊
81
10Polish (pl)
Atak słownikowy
76
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Dictionary attack" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Dictionary attack
136
2German (de)
Wörterbuchangriff
63
3French (fr)
Attaque par dictionnaire
48
4Italian (it)
Attacco a dizionario
34
5Russian (ru)
Перебор по словарю
31
6Spanish (es)
Ataque de diccionario
23
7Japanese (ja)
辞書攻撃
22
8Dutch (nl)
Woordenlijstaanval
20
9Polish (pl)
Atak słownikowy
18
10Danish (da)
Ordbogsangreb
16
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Dictionary attack" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Portuguese (pt)
Ataque de dicionário
1
2Arabic (ar)
هجوم المعجم
0
3Catalan (ca)
Atac de diccionari
0
4Czech (cs)
Slovníkový útok
0
5Danish (da)
Ordbogsangreb
0
6German (de)
Wörterbuchangriff
0
7English (en)
Dictionary attack
0
8Spanish (es)
Ataque de diccionario
0
9Persian (fa)
حمله لغت‌نامه‌ای
0
10French (fr)
Attaque par dictionnaire
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Dictionary attack" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1French (fr)
Attaque par dictionnaire
82
2English (en)
Dictionary attack
74
3German (de)
Wörterbuchangriff
36
4Russian (ru)
Перебор по словарю
31
5Italian (it)
Attacco a dizionario
28
6Japanese (ja)
辞書攻撃
28
7Spanish (es)
Ataque de diccionario
22
8Czech (cs)
Slovníkový útok
18
9Persian (fa)
حمله لغت‌نامه‌ای
17
10Korean (ko)
사전 공격
16
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
هجوم المعجم
caCatalan
Atac de diccionari
csCzech
Slovníkový útok
daDanish
Ordbogsangreb
deGerman
Wörterbuchangriff
enEnglish
Dictionary attack
esSpanish
Ataque de diccionario
faPersian
حمله لغت‌نامه‌ای
frFrench
Attaque par dictionnaire
itItalian
Attacco a dizionario
jaJapanese
辞書攻撃
koKorean
사전 공격
nlDutch
Woordenlijstaanval
noNorwegian
Ordbokangrep
plPolish
Atak słownikowy
ptPortuguese
Ataque de dicionário
ruRussian
Перебор по словарю
simpleSimple English
Dictionary attack
svSwedish
Ordboksattack
thThai
การโจมตีด้วยคำจากพจนานุกรม
ukUkrainian
Перебір за словником
viVietnamese
Tấn công từ điển
zhChinese
字典攻擊

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#40886
03.2009
Global:
#51982
03.2009

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#1310
10.2002
Global:
#3131
10.2002

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Dictionary attack from Wikipedia articles about Brute-force attack, Password cracking, Rainbow table, Brute-force search and RockYou. Whereas reading the article about Dictionary attack people most often go to Wikipedia articles on John the Ripper, Cain and Abel, Rainbow table, Brute-force attack and Crack.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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