French Defence

French defence - chess opening 1. e4 e6. Article “French Defence” in English Wikipedia has 58.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 26 references and 39 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 10.26 points.

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

In June 2026 the article “French Defence” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 5 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “French Defence”, its content was written by 217 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 891 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 672 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3688 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #7626 in April 2003
• Global: #4044 in August 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #26582 in December 2020
• Global: #31112 in December 2020

There are 39 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	Finnish (fi) Ranskalainen puolustus		80.2769
2	English (en) French Defence		58.1229
3	Korean (ko) 프렌치 디펜스		55.9319
4	Portuguese (pt) Defesa francesa		50.2692
5	Hebrew (he) הגנה צרפתית		49.1201
6	Vietnamese (vi) Phòng thủ Pháp (cờ vua)		48.5703
7	French (fr) Défense française		35.4877
8	Danish (da) Fransk (skak)		34.0801
9	Slovak (sk) Francúzska obrana		33.211
10	Tamil (ta) பிரெஞ்சுத் தற்காப்பு		24.6442

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) French Defence		2 171 671
2	Spanish (es) Defensa francesa		307 842
3	French (fr) Défense française		303 128
4	German (de) Französische Verteidigung		278 032
5	Russian (ru) Французская защита		277 764
6	Polish (pl) Obrona francuska		135 825
7	Italian (it) Difesa francese		129 271
8	Portuguese (pt) Defesa francesa		81 211
9	Dutch (nl) Frans (schaakopening)		46 454
10	Vietnamese (vi) Phòng thủ Pháp (cờ vua)		34 751

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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 "French Defence" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) French Defence		6 474
2	French (fr) Défense française		1 430
3	Russian (ru) Французская защита		825
4	German (de) Französische Verteidigung		646
5	Spanish (es) Defensa francesa		390
6	Italian (it) Difesa francese		317
7	Polish (pl) Obrona francuska		272
8	Chinese (zh) 法兰西防御		227
9	Portuguese (pt) Defesa francesa		207
10	Vietnamese (vi) Phòng thủ Pháp (cờ vua)		136

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) French Defence		217
2	German (de) Französische Verteidigung		93
3	French (fr) Défense française		75
4	Italian (it) Difesa francese		60
5	Russian (ru) Французская защита		59
6	Dutch (nl) Frans (schaakopening)		48
7	Hebrew (he) הגנה צרפתית		30
8	Spanish (es) Defensa francesa		29
9	Latin (la) Defensio Francogallica		26
10	Portuguese (pt) Defesa francesa		24

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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 "French Defence" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Danish (da) Fransk (skak)		1
2	German (de) Französische Verteidigung		1
3	English (en) French Defence		1
4	Finnish (fi) Ranskalainen puolustus		1
5	Italian (it) Difesa francese		1
6	Arabic (ar) دفاع فرنسي		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) Fransız müdafiəsi		0
8	Catalan (ca) Defensa francesa		0
9	Czech (cs) Francouzská obrana		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Franca defendo		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 "French Defence" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) French Defence		672
2	French (fr) Défense française		293
3	Russian (ru) Французская защита		264
4	Italian (it) Difesa francese		193
5	Arabic (ar) دفاع فرنسي		185
6	Turkish (tr) Fransız Savunması		179
7	Korean (ko) 프렌치 디펜스		167
8	Serbian (sr) Француска одбрана		166
9	Catalan (ca) Defensa francesa		163
10	Esperanto (eo) Franca defendo		141

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic دفاع فرنسي
az	Azerbaijani Fransız müdafiəsi
ca	Catalan Defensa francesa
cs	Czech Francouzská obrana
da	Danish Fransk (skak)
de	German Französische Verteidigung
en	English French Defence
eo	Esperanto Franca defendo
es	Spanish Defensa francesa
et	Estonian Prantsuse kaitse
eu	Basque Frantziar defentsa
fa	Persian دفاع فرانسوی
fi	Finnish Ranskalainen puolustus
fr	French Défense française
he	Hebrew הגנה צרפתית
hu	Hungarian Francia védelem
hy	Armenian Ֆրանսիական պաշտպանություն
it	Italian Difesa francese
ja	Japanese フレンチ・ディフェンス
kk	Kazakh Француз қорғанысы
ko	Korean 프렌치 디펜스
la	Latin Defensio Francogallica
lt	Lithuanian Prancūziškoji gynyba
nl	Dutch Frans (schaakopening)
no	Norwegian Fransk forsvar
pl	Polish Obrona francuska
pt	Portuguese Defesa francesa
ro	Romanian Apărarea franceză
ru	Russian Французская защита
simple	Simple English French Defence
sk	Slovak Francúzska obrana
sr	Serbian Француска одбрана
sv	Swedish Franskt parti
ta	Tamil பிரெஞ்சுத் தற்காப்பு
tr	Turkish Fransız Savunması
uk	Ukrainian Французький захист
uz	Uzbek Fransuz himoyasi
vi	Vietnamese Phòng thủ Pháp (cờ vua)
zh	Chinese 法兰西防御

Best Rank

English: #26582 12.2020

Global: #31112 12.2020

Best Rank

English: #7626 04.2003

Global: #4044 08.2003

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