Legendary creature

Quality:

Mythical creature - supernatural animal, generally a hybrid, sometimes part human, whose existence cannot be proven, described in legends, myths, fables, folklore. Article “Legendary creature” in English Wikipedia has 43.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 20 references and 5 sections.

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

In June 2026 the article “Legendary creature” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 5 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Legendary creature”, its content was written by 484 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1069 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1349 times in English Wikipedia and cited 5481 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #105 in March 2013
• Global: #1300 in March 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #130 in December 2010
• Global: #551 in December 2010

There are 28 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	Chinese (zh) 傳說生物		49.2739
2	Turkish (tr) Efsanevi yaratık		43.526
3	English (en) Legendary creature		43.2667
4	Indonesian (id) Makhluk mitologis		42.9087
5	Norwegian (no) Fabelvesen		38.2656
6	Korean (ko) 전설의 생물		34.9917
7	Ukrainian (uk) Міфічна істота		34.5189
8	Russian (ru) Мифическое существо		32.8821
9	Belarusian (be) Міфічная істота		30.9496
10	Vietnamese (vi) Sinh vật huyền thoại		30.8593

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Legendary creature		7 500 974
2	German (de) Fabelwesen		1 301 638
3	Italian (it) Creatura leggendaria		565 889
4	Hebrew (he) יצור מיתולוגי		562 907
5	French (fr) Créature légendaire		316 657
6	Indonesian (id) Makhluk mitologis		300 847
7	Dutch (nl) Mythisch wezen		282 792
8	Russian (ru) Мифическое существо		190 136
9	Chinese (zh) 傳說生物		186 039
10	Vietnamese (vi) Sinh vật huyền thoại		156 339

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Legendary creature		16 209
2	German (de) Fabelwesen		1 289
3	Russian (ru) Мифическое существо		863
4	French (fr) Créature légendaire		646
5	Chinese (zh) 傳說生物		587
6	Hebrew (he) יצור מיתולוגי		573
7	Italian (it) Creatura leggendaria		459
8	Vietnamese (vi) Sinh vật huyền thoại		403
9	Dutch (nl) Mythisch wezen		323
10	Korean (ko) 전설의 생물		304

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Legendary creature		484
2	Hebrew (he) יצור מיתולוגי		177
3	German (de) Fabelwesen		64
4	Italian (it) Creatura leggendaria		58
5	Dutch (nl) Mythisch wezen		47
6	Norwegian (no) Fabelvesen		33
7	Simple English (simple) Legendary creature		28
8	Finnish (fi) Taruolento		23
9	French (fr) Créature légendaire		23
10	Arabic (ar) كائن أسطوري		22

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Legendary creature		2
2	Indonesian (id) Makhluk mitologis		1
3	Simple English (simple) Legendary creature		1
4	Serbian (sr) Митолошка бића		1
5	Arabic (ar) كائن أسطوري		0
6	Belarusian (be) Міфічная істота		0
7	German (de) Fabelwesen		0
8	Persian (fa) جانداران افسانه‌ای		0
9	Finnish (fi) Taruolento		0
10	French (fr) Créature légendaire		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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