Punch line

Punch line - third and final part of the typical joke structure. Article “Punch line” in English Wikipedia has 34.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 16 references and 8 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.

In June 2025 the article “Punch line” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 5 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Punch line”, its content was written by 116 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 525 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 287 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1293 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #19631 in March 2004
• Global: #6149 in December 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #47842 in April 2015
• Global: #45696 in September 2008

There are 17 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	English (en) Punch line		34.2796
2	Swedish (sv) Slutpoäng		27.0418
3	Spanish (es) Remate del chiste		23.1909
4	Simple English (simple) Punch line		22.1555
5	Czech (cs) Pointa		21.7122
6	Japanese (ja) 落ち		21.3322
7	Hebrew (he) שורת מחץ		20.9692
8	French (fr) Phrase choc		16.0297
9	Persian (fa) شاه‌بیت		14.1629
10	Chinese (zh) 哏		12.9378

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Punch line		1 526 712
2	Japanese (ja) 落ち		893 584
3	French (fr) Phrase choc		659 934
4	German (de) Pointe		655 348
5	Polish (pl) Puenta		626 486
6	Chinese (zh) 哏		261 180
7	Czech (cs) Pointa		123 712
8	Persian (fa) شاه‌بیت		34 638
9	Spanish (es) Remate del chiste		31 560
10	Slovak (sk) Pointa		21 359

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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 "Punch line" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Punch line		3 270
2	Japanese (ja) 落ち		1 562
3	Chinese (zh) 哏		913
4	German (de) Pointe		649
5	Spanish (es) Remate del chiste		438
6	French (fr) Phrase choc		370
7	Polish (pl) Puenta		249
8	Czech (cs) Pointa		186
9	Dutch (nl) Pointe (stijlfiguur)		107
10	Persian (fa) شاه‌بیت		106

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Punch line		116
2	German (de) Pointe		78
3	French (fr) Phrase choc		69
4	Japanese (ja) 落ち		69
5	Chinese (zh) 哏		56
6	Dutch (nl) Pointe (stijlfiguur)		33
7	Polish (pl) Puenta		32
8	Czech (cs) Pointa		28
9	Spanish (es) Remate del chiste		10
10	Esperanto (eo) Pintumo		8

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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 "Punch line" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Czech (cs) Pointa		1
2	English (en) Punch line		1
3	Esperanto (eo) Pintumo		1
4	Japanese (ja) 落ち		1
5	Chinese (zh) 哏		1
6	German (de) Pointe		0
7	Spanish (es) Remate del chiste		0
8	Persian (fa) شاه‌بیت		0
9	French (fr) Phrase choc		0
10	Hebrew (he) שורת מחץ		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 "Punch line" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) 落ち		356
2	English (en) Punch line		287
3	German (de) Pointe		212
4	Chinese (zh) 哏		99
5	French (fr) Phrase choc		75
6	Polish (pl) Puenta		66
7	Persian (fa) شاه‌بیت		57
8	Hebrew (he) שורת מחץ		37
9	Dutch (nl) Pointe (stijlfiguur)		32
10	Czech (cs) Pointa		30

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#	Language	Value
cs	Czech Pointa
de	German Pointe
en	English Punch line
eo	Esperanto Pintumo
es	Spanish Remate del chiste
fa	Persian شاه‌بیت
fr	French Phrase choc
he	Hebrew שורת מחץ
id	Indonesian Tohokan
ja	Japanese 落ち
ko	Korean 펀치라인 (용어)
nl	Dutch Pointe (stijlfiguur)
pl	Polish Puenta
simple	Simple English Punch line
sk	Slovak Pointa
sv	Swedish Slutpoäng
zh	Chinese 哏

Best Rank

English: #47842 04.2015

Global: #45696 09.2008

Best Rank

English: #19631 03.2004

Global: #6149 12.2002

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