Les Mots et les Choses

The Order of Things - essay by Michel Foucault. This book is the 2788^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 889^th most popular book in French Wikipedia. Article “Les Mots et les Choses” in French Wikipedia has 29.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 31 references and 12 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.54 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Les Mots et les Choses”, its content was written by 101 registered users of French Wikipedia and edited by 324 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Order of Things is on the 889^th place in local ranking of books in French Wikipedia and on the 2788^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 52 times in French Wikipedia and cited 393 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #8335 in September 2006
• Global: #65265 in February 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #25627 in October 2009
• Global: #145153 in April 2015

There are 16 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	Italian (it) Le parole e le cose		39.2466
2	English (en) The Order of Things		33.4548
3	Chinese (zh) 词与物		31.5884
4	Portuguese (pt) As Palavras e as Coisas		30.8996
5	French (fr) Les Mots et les Choses		29.1937
6	German (de) Die Ordnung der Dinge		29.1516
7	Spanish (es) Las palabras y las cosas		25.2812
8	Swedish (sv) Les mots et les choses		22.4478
9	Vietnamese (vi) Trật tự của sự vật		17.3537
10	Catalan (ca) Les paraules i les coses		16.078

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Les Mots et les Choses" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Order of Things		880 454
2	French (fr) Les Mots et les Choses		392 092
3	Spanish (es) Las palabras y las cosas		219 956
4	German (de) Die Ordnung der Dinge		193 785
5	Italian (it) Le parole e le cose		112 631
6	Chinese (zh) 词与物		49 994
7	Portuguese (pt) As Palavras e as Coisas		29 192
8	Arabic (ar) الكلمات والأشياء		27 115
9	Dutch (nl) Les mots et les choses		25 274
10	Korean (ko) 말과 사물		10 729

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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 "Les Mots et les Choses" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Order of Things		3 913
2	French (fr) Les Mots et les Choses		1 148
3	Spanish (es) Las palabras y las cosas		679
4	German (de) Die Ordnung der Dinge		639
5	Italian (it) Le parole e le cose		552
6	Chinese (zh) 词与物		382
7	Portuguese (pt) As Palavras e as Coisas		354
8	Korean (ko) 말과 사물		84
9	Dutch (nl) Les mots et les choses		72
10	Persian (fa) الفاظ و اشیا		59

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

Language versions of the article "Les Mots et les Choses" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	French (fr) Les Mots et les Choses		101
2	English (en) The Order of Things		60
3	German (de) Die Ordnung der Dinge		51
4	Italian (it) Le parole e le cose		26
5	Dutch (nl) Les mots et les choses		14
6	Portuguese (pt) As Palavras e as Coisas		13
7	Arabic (ar) الكلمات والأشياء		12
8	Spanish (es) Las palabras y las cosas		10
9	Persian (fa) الفاظ و اشیا		9
10	Vietnamese (vi) Trật tự của sự vật		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 "Les Mots et les Choses" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) الكلمات والأشياء		0
2	Catalan (ca) Les paraules i les coses		0
3	German (de) Die Ordnung der Dinge		0
4	English (en) The Order of Things		0
5	Spanish (es) Las palabras y las cosas		0
6	Estonian (et) Sõnad ja asjad		0
7	Persian (fa) الفاظ و اشیا		0
8	Finnish (fi) Sanat ja asiat		0
9	French (fr) Les Mots et les Choses		0
10	Italian (it) Le parole e le cose		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 "Les Mots et les Choses" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) The Order of Things		100
2	Korean (ko) 말과 사물		69
3	French (fr) Les Mots et les Choses		52
4	Persian (fa) الفاظ و اشیا		40
5	German (de) Die Ordnung der Dinge		28
6	Italian (it) Le parole e le cose		18
7	Spanish (es) Las palabras y las cosas		14
8	Portuguese (pt) As Palavras e as Coisas		14
9	Chinese (zh) 词与物		14
10	Dutch (nl) Les mots et les choses		13

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic الكلمات والأشياء
ca	Catalan Les paraules i les coses
de	German Die Ordnung der Dinge
en	English The Order of Things
es	Spanish Las palabras y las cosas
et	Estonian Sõnad ja asjad
fa	Persian الفاظ و اشیا
fi	Finnish Sanat ja asiat
fr	French Les Mots et les Choses
it	Italian Le parole e le cose
ko	Korean 말과 사물
nl	Dutch Les mots et les choses
pt	Portuguese As Palavras e as Coisas
sv	Swedish Les mots et les choses
vi	Vietnamese Trật tự của sự vật
zh	Chinese 词与物

Best Rank

French: #25627 10.2009

Global: #145153 04.2015

Best Rank

French: #8335 09.2006

Global: #65265 02.2005

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