Rogue wave

Quality:

Rogue wave - relatively large and spontaneous ocean surface waves that occur far out at sea. Article “Rogue wave” in English Wikipedia has 86.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 187 references and 31 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.54 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 “Rogue wave” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 13 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Rogue wave”, its content was written by 598 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1774 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 452 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1854 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #472 in May 2004
• Global: #2486 in May 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #944 in December 2022
• Global: #1915 in December 2022

There are 31 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) Rogue wave		86.3289
2	Portuguese (pt) Vagalhão		61.6968
3	German (de) Monsterwelle		49.5593
4	French (fr) Vague scélérate		48.5382
5	Catalan (ca) Onada gegant		38.3072
6	Swedish (sv) Monstervåg		37.2047
7	Spanish (es) Ola gigante		36.0815
8	Chinese (zh) 瘋狗浪		34.2142
9	Arabic (ar) موجة مارقة		33.7569
10	Russian (ru) Волны-убийцы		32.5491

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Rogue wave		7 675 435
2	German (de) Monsterwelle		1 994 640
3	French (fr) Vague scélérate		1 550 832
4	Russian (ru) Волны-убийцы		1 533 270
5	Spanish (es) Ola gigante		663 960
6	Italian (it) Onda anomala		296 671
7	Japanese (ja) 巨大波		278 488
8	Chinese (zh) 瘋狗浪		224 666
9	Portuguese (pt) Vagalhão		175 415
10	Dutch (nl) Monstergolf		143 368

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) Rogue wave		19 539
2	Russian (ru) Волны-убийцы		7 349
3	German (de) Monsterwelle		4 242
4	French (fr) Vague scélérate		2 834
5	Italian (it) Onda anomala		1 357
6	Spanish (es) Ola gigante		1 299
7	Japanese (ja) 巨大波		1 133
8	Polish (pl) Fala wyjątkowa		718
9	Chinese (zh) 瘋狗浪		655
10	Dutch (nl) Monstergolf		337

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Rogue wave		598
2	German (de) Monsterwelle		321
3	French (fr) Vague scélérate		233
4	Russian (ru) Волны-убийцы		112
5	Spanish (es) Ola gigante		58
6	Italian (it) Onda anomala		57
7	Hebrew (he) גל פרא		46
8	Dutch (nl) Monstergolf		34
9	Chinese (zh) 瘋狗浪		32
10	Swedish (sv) Monstervåg		31

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	Hebrew (he) גל פרא		4
2	Portuguese (pt) Vagalhão		3
3	German (de) Monsterwelle		2
4	Arabic (ar) موجة مارقة		1
5	Azerbaijani (az) Qatil dalğaları		1
6	English (en) Rogue wave		1
7	Spanish (es) Ola gigante		1
8	Catalan (ca) Onada gegant		0
9	Czech (cs) Rogue wave		0
10	Danish (da) Ekstrem havbølge		0

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

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