Supporting character

Supporting character - character in a narrative that is not the focus of the primary story but plays a crucial role. Article “Supporting character” in English Wikipedia has 24.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 7 references and 7 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.68 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 “Supporting character” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Supporting character”, its content was written by 84 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 203 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 892 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2206 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #66843 in March 2019
• Global: #55332 in October 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #199711 in February 2020
• Global: #95476 in February 2018

There are 12 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) Supporting character		24.1222
2	Armenian (hy) Աջակցող կերպար		19.4352
3	Korean (ko) 조역		18.2751
4	Vietnamese (vi) Nhân vật phụ		14.9872
5	Turkish (tr) Yardımcı karakter		11.1988
6	Spanish (es) Personaje secundario		7.9194
7	Chinese (zh) 配角		7.4697
8	Hebrew (he) דמות משנה		5.0204
9	Japanese (ja) 脇役		0.991
10	Dutch (nl) Bijfiguur		0.4577

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Supporting character" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Supporting character		661 484
2	Japanese (ja) 脇役		483 594
3	Chinese (zh) 配角		193 952
4	Hebrew (he) דמות משנה		25 058
5	Dutch (nl) Bijfiguur		23 321
6	Turkish (tr) Yardımcı karakter		14 619
7	Spanish (es) Personaje secundario		11 416
8	Korean (ko) 조역		3 194
9	Vietnamese (vi) Nhân vật phụ		2 527
10	Greek (el) Βοηθητικός χαρακτήρας		2 493

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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 "Supporting character" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Supporting character		3 282
2	Japanese (ja) 脇役		1 273
3	Chinese (zh) 配角		507
4	Spanish (es) Personaje secundario		136
5	Vietnamese (vi) Nhân vật phụ		70
6	Hebrew (he) דמות משנה		58
7	Dutch (nl) Bijfiguur		38
8	Turkish (tr) Yardımcı karakter		30
9	Korean (ko) 조역		23
10	Simple English (simple) Supporting character		11

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Supporting character		84
2	Chinese (zh) 配角		43
3	Japanese (ja) 脇役		22
4	Hebrew (he) דמות משנה		14
5	Dutch (nl) Bijfiguur		12
6	Turkish (tr) Yardımcı karakter		9
7	Korean (ko) 조역		6
8	Vietnamese (vi) Nhân vật phụ		6
9	Greek (el) Βοηθητικός χαρακτήρας		3
10	Armenian (hy) Աջակցող կերպար		2

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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 "Supporting character" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Vietnamese (vi) Nhân vật phụ		2
2	English (en) Supporting character		1
3	Greek (el) Βοηθητικός χαρακτήρας		0
4	Spanish (es) Personaje secundario		0
5	Hebrew (he) דמות משנה		0
6	Armenian (hy) Աջակցող կերպար		0
7	Japanese (ja) 脇役		0
8	Korean (ko) 조역		0
9	Dutch (nl) Bijfiguur		0
10	Simple English (simple) Supporting character		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 "Supporting character" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Supporting character		892
2	Japanese (ja) 脇役		410
3	Hebrew (he) דמות משנה		272
4	Chinese (zh) 配角		223
5	Dutch (nl) Bijfiguur		139
6	Turkish (tr) Yardımcı karakter		103
7	Korean (ko) 조역		94
8	Spanish (es) Personaje secundario		24
9	Simple English (simple) Supporting character		24
10	Vietnamese (vi) Nhân vật phụ		15

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#	Language	Value
el	Greek Βοηθητικός χαρακτήρας
en	English Supporting character
es	Spanish Personaje secundario
he	Hebrew דמות משנה
hy	Armenian Աջակցող կերպար
ja	Japanese 脇役
ko	Korean 조역
nl	Dutch Bijfiguur
simple	Simple English Supporting character
tr	Turkish Yardımcı karakter
vi	Vietnamese Nhân vật phụ
zh	Chinese 配角

Best Rank

English: #199711 02.2020

Global: #95476 02.2018

Best Rank

English: #66843 03.2019

Global: #55332 10.2014

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