Plausible deniability

Plausible deniability - strategy for evasion of accountability by preventing proof of responsibility. Article “Plausible deniability” in English Wikipedia has 45.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 36 references and 19 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 5.06 points.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

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

Since the creation of article “Plausible deniability”, its content was written by 275 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 487 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 257 times in English Wikipedia and cited 562 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #7269 in August 2003
• Global: #14556 in August 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #14180 in October 2020
• Global: #30086 in October 2020

There are 21 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) Plausible deniability		45.5699
2	Hebrew (he) הכחשה סבירה		32.6847
3	Norwegian (no) Troverdig benektelse		27.8045
4	German (de) Glaubhafte Abstreitbarkeit		25.8484
5	Croatian (hr) Plauzibilna porecivost		22.2139
6	French (fr) Déni plausible		21.2565
7	Swedish (sv) Trovärdigt förnekande		19.6405
8	Chinese (zh) 合理推诿		17.9876
9	Arabic (ar) إنكار مقبول		14.869
10	Russian (ru) Правдоподобное отрицание		14.671

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Plausible deniability		3 932 181
2	German (de) Glaubhafte Abstreitbarkeit		308 644
3	Russian (ru) Правдоподобное отрицание		128 461
4	Italian (it) Negazione plausibile		123 818
5	Spanish (es) Negación plausible		89 643
6	French (fr) Déni plausible		73 702
7	Simple English (simple) Plausible deniability		53 591
8	Portuguese (pt) Negação plausível		41 484
9	Japanese (ja) もっともらしい否認		31 912
10	Chinese (zh) 合理推诿		22 158

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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 "Plausible deniability" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Plausible deniability		9 920
2	German (de) Glaubhafte Abstreitbarkeit		698
3	Russian (ru) Правдоподобное отрицание		513
4	French (fr) Déni plausible		314
5	Spanish (es) Negación plausible		302
6	Italian (it) Negazione plausibile		266
7	Japanese (ja) もっともらしい否認		232
8	Chinese (zh) 合理推诿		219
9	Portuguese (pt) Negação plausível		106
10	Persian (fa) انکارپذیری موجه		67

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Plausible deniability		275
2	German (de) Glaubhafte Abstreitbarkeit		63
3	Italian (it) Negazione plausibile		41
4	French (fr) Déni plausible		15
5	Russian (ru) Правдоподобное отрицание		12
6	Swedish (sv) Trovärdigt förnekande		11
7	Japanese (ja) もっともらしい否認		10
8	Spanish (es) Negación plausible		8
9	Turkish (tr) Makul inkâr edilebilirlik		8
10	Czech (cs) Hodnověrné popření		7

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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 "Plausible deniability" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Plausible deniability		2
2	Arabic (ar) إنكار مقبول		0
3	Czech (cs) Hodnověrné popření		0
4	German (de) Glaubhafte Abstreitbarkeit		0
5	Spanish (es) Negación plausible		0
6	Persian (fa) انکارپذیری موجه		0
7	French (fr) Déni plausible		0
8	Hebrew (he) הכחשה סבירה		0
9	Croatian (hr) Plauzibilna porecivost		0
10	Indonesian (id) Penyangkalan yang masuk akal		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 "Plausible deniability" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Plausible deniability		257
2	Italian (it) Negazione plausibile		51
3	German (de) Glaubhafte Abstreitbarkeit		48
4	Portuguese (pt) Negação plausível		33
5	Chinese (zh) 合理推诿		28
6	Spanish (es) Negación plausible		26
7	Russian (ru) Правдоподобное отрицание		24
8	French (fr) Déni plausible		19
9	Arabic (ar) إنكار مقبول		18
10	Japanese (ja) もっともらしい否認		14

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic إنكار مقبول
cs	Czech Hodnověrné popření
de	German Glaubhafte Abstreitbarkeit
en	English Plausible deniability
es	Spanish Negación plausible
fa	Persian انکارپذیری موجه
fr	French Déni plausible
he	Hebrew הכחשה סבירה
hr	Croatian Plauzibilna porecivost
id	Indonesian Penyangkalan yang masuk akal
it	Italian Negazione plausibile
ja	Japanese もっともらしい否認
nl	Dutch Plausibele ontkenning
no	Norwegian Troverdig benektelse
pt	Portuguese Negação plausível
ru	Russian Правдоподобное отрицание
simple	Simple English Plausible deniability
sr	Serbian Могућност порицања
sv	Swedish Trovärdigt förnekande
tr	Turkish Makul inkâr edilebilirlik
zh	Chinese 合理推诿

Best Rank

English: #14180 10.2020

Global: #30086 10.2020

Best Rank

English: #7269 08.2003

Global: #14556 08.2003

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