Embezzlement

Embezzlement - theft of assets from one person or entity by another to whom the assets were entrusted. Article “Embezzlement” in English Wikipedia has 36 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 25 references and 8 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.99 points.

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

In June 2025 the article “Embezzlement” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Embezzlement”, its content was written by 223 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 956 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1930 times in English Wikipedia and cited 6262 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #8205 in April 2003
• Global: #7959 in October 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #12163 in December 2011
• Global: #14696 in December 2011

There are 37 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.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	German (de) Untreue (Deutschland)		80
2	Korean (ko) 횡령죄		43.5417
3	Catalan (ca) Malversació		38.9379
4	English (en) Embezzlement		35.9533
5	Hungarian (hu) Sikkasztás		34.0911
6	Spanish (es) Desfalco		29.5404
7	Serbian (sr) Pronevera		25.2436
8	Simple English (simple) Embezzlement		25.1544
9	French (fr) Détournement de fonds		23.8579
10	Tamil (ta) கையாடல்		22.6345

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Embezzlement		5 877 370
2	Japanese (ja) 横領罪		1 741 660
3	Portuguese (pt) Apropriação indébita		933 423
4	Italian (it) Appropriazione indebita		735 745
5	Spanish (es) Desfalco		617 137
6	Polish (pl) Defraudacja		471 454
7	French (fr) Détournement de fonds		338 646
8	German (de) Untreue (Deutschland)		332 948
9	Persian (fa) اختلاس		318 824
10	Korean (ko) 횡령죄		186 906

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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 "Embezzlement" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Embezzlement		21 699
2	Japanese (ja) 横領罪		2 017
3	Persian (fa) اختلاس		1 458
4	Korean (ko) 횡령죄		1 342
5	Spanish (es) Desfalco		1 148
6	German (de) Untreue (Deutschland)		830
7	French (fr) Détournement de fonds		787
8	Czech (cs) Zpronevěra		619
9	Greek (el) Υπεξαίρεση		604
10	Italian (it) Appropriazione indebita		442

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Embezzlement		223
2	German (de) Untreue (Deutschland)		146
3	Italian (it) Appropriazione indebita		52
4	French (fr) Détournement de fonds		44
5	Persian (fa) اختلاس		43
6	Japanese (ja) 横領罪		42
7	Hebrew (he) מעילה		41
8	Dutch (nl) Verduistering (misdrijf)		32
9	Spanish (es) Desfalco		27
10	Polish (pl) Defraudacja		26

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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 "Embezzlement" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Korean (ko) 횡령죄		3
2	Catalan (ca) Malversació		1
3	German (de) Untreue (Deutschland)		1
4	English (en) Embezzlement		1
5	Persian (fa) اختلاس		1
6	Japanese (ja) 横領罪		1
7	Arabic (ar) اختلاس		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Присвояване		0
9	Czech (cs) Zpronevěra		0
10	Danish (da) Underslæb		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 "Embezzlement" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Embezzlement		1 930
2	Japanese (ja) 横領罪		757
3	French (fr) Détournement de fonds		390
4	German (de) Untreue (Deutschland)		388
5	Spanish (es) Desfalco		316
6	Hebrew (he) מעילה		200
7	Italian (it) Appropriazione indebita		180
8	Arabic (ar) اختلاس		161
9	Portuguese (pt) Apropriação indébita		148
10	Czech (cs) Zpronevěra		144

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic اختلاس
bg	Bulgarian Присвояване
ca	Catalan Malversació
cs	Czech Zpronevěra
da	Danish Underslæb
de	German Untreue (Deutschland)
el	Greek Υπεξαίρεση
en	English Embezzlement
eo	Esperanto Publika malversacio
es	Spanish Desfalco
eu	Basque Funts-desbideratze
fa	Persian اختلاس
fi	Finnish Kavallus
fr	French Détournement de fonds
he	Hebrew מעילה
hi	Hindi गबन (अपराध)
hr	Croatian Pronevjera
hu	Hungarian Sikkasztás
hy	Armenian Յուրացում
id	Indonesian Penggelapan
it	Italian Appropriazione indebita
ja	Japanese 横領罪
ko	Korean 횡령죄
ms	Malay Penyelewengan
nl	Dutch Verduistering (misdrijf)
no	Norwegian Underslag
pl	Polish Defraudacja
pt	Portuguese Apropriação indébita
ro	Romanian Deturnare de fonduri
ru	Russian Присвоение
simple	Simple English Embezzlement
sr	Serbian Pronevera
sv	Swedish Förskingring
ta	Tamil கையாடல்
tr	Turkish Zimmete geçirme
uk	Ukrainian Привласнення
zh	Chinese 侵吞

Best Rank

English: #12163 12.2011

Global: #14696 12.2011

Best Rank

English: #8205 04.2003

Global: #7959 10.2003

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