Free throw

Free throw - penalty in basketball. Article “Free throw” in English Wikipedia has 57.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 26 references and 10 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.

Since the creation of article “Free throw”, its content was written by 262 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 585 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 11081 times in English Wikipedia (1788^th place) and cited 22305 times in all languages (7692^nd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #9391 in January 2004
• Global: #22027 in February 2020

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #7459 in October 2021
• Global: #15695 in October 2021

There are 22 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) Free throw		57.939
2	Hebrew (he) זריקת עונשין		40.1111
3	Korean (ko) 자유투		39.0048
4	Polish (pl) Rzut wolny (koszykówka)		35.3075
5	French (fr) Lancer franc		33.4996
6	Uzbek (uz) Erkin uloqtirish		26.7336
7	Spanish (es) Tiro libre (baloncesto)		21.4441
8	Portuguese (pt) Lance livre		19.7989
9	Lithuanian (lt) Baudų metimo zona		18.3792
10	Russian (ru) Штрафной бросок		17.9842

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Free throw		2 403 081
2	Spanish (es) Tiro libre (baloncesto)		1 590 916
3	Russian (ru) Штрафной бросок		384 600
4	French (fr) Lancer franc		298 458
5	Japanese (ja) フリースロー		244 863
6	Polish (pl) Rzut wolny (koszykówka)		238 705
7	Portuguese (pt) Lance livre		211 795
8	German (de) Freiwurf (Basketball)		180 758
9	Italian (it) Tiro libero		164 477
10	Indonesian (id) Lemparan bebas (basket)		94 768

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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 "Free throw" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Free throw		6 138
2	Russian (ru) Штрафной бросок		609
3	Spanish (es) Tiro libre (baloncesto)		499
4	Japanese (ja) フリースロー		491
5	French (fr) Lancer franc		442
6	Chinese (zh) 罚球 (篮球)		344
7	German (de) Freiwurf (Basketball)		205
8	Italian (it) Tiro libero		144
9	Polish (pl) Rzut wolny (koszykówka)		120
10	Greek (el) Ελεύθερες βολές (καλαθοσφαίριση)		104

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Free throw		262
2	French (fr) Lancer franc		49
3	German (de) Freiwurf (Basketball)		40
4	Spanish (es) Tiro libre (baloncesto)		37
5	Italian (it) Tiro libero		32
6	Polish (pl) Rzut wolny (koszykówka)		32
7	Japanese (ja) フリースロー		18
8	Chinese (zh) 罚球 (篮球)		17
9	Russian (ru) Штрафной бросок		14
10	Greek (el) Ελεύθερες βολές (καλαθοσφαίριση)		13

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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 "Free throw" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) رمية حرة		1
2	Catalan (ca) Tir lliure (bàsquet)		0
3	German (de) Freiwurf (Basketball)		0
4	Greek (el) Ελεύθερες βολές (καλαθοσφαίριση)		0
5	English (en) Free throw		0
6	Spanish (es) Tiro libre (baloncesto)		0
7	Persian (fa) پرتاب آزاد		0
8	French (fr) Lancer franc		0
9	Hebrew (he) זריקת עונשין		0
10	Indonesian (id) Lemparan bebas (basket)		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 "Free throw" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Free throw		11 081
2	Spanish (es) Tiro libre (baloncesto)		5 111
3	Japanese (ja) フリースロー		1 835
4	Italian (it) Tiro libero		1 720
5	Chinese (zh) 罚球 (篮球)		810
6	German (de) Freiwurf (Basketball)		681
7	French (fr) Lancer franc		239
8	Hebrew (he) זריקת עונשין		169
9	Polish (pl) Rzut wolny (koszykówka)		164
10	Greek (el) Ελεύθερες βολές (καλαθοσφαίριση)		109

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic رمية حرة
ca	Catalan Tir lliure (bàsquet)
de	German Freiwurf (Basketball)
el	Greek Ελεύθερες βολές (καλαθοσφαίριση)
en	English Free throw
es	Spanish Tiro libre (baloncesto)
fa	Persian پرتاب آزاد
fr	French Lancer franc
he	Hebrew זריקת עונשין
id	Indonesian Lemparan bebas (basket)
it	Italian Tiro libero
ja	Japanese フリースロー
ko	Korean 자유투
lt	Lithuanian Baudų metimo zona
no	Norwegian Straffekast (basketball)
pl	Polish Rzut wolny (koszykówka)
pt	Portuguese Lance livre
ru	Russian Штрафной бросок
sr	Serbian Слободно бацање
tr	Turkish Serbest atış
uz	Uzbek Erkin uloqtirish
zh	Chinese 罚球 (篮球)

Best Rank

English: #7459 10.2021

Global: #15695 10.2021

Best Rank

English: #9391 01.2004

Global: #22027 02.2020

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