ソバ

Quality:

Fagopyrum esculentum - species of flowering plant in the family Polygonaceae. This taxon is the 179^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 620^th most popular taxon in Japanese Wikipedia. Article “ソバ” in Japanese Wikipedia has 65.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 74 references and 33 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Japanese Wikipedia:

The 620^th most popular in taxon in Japanese Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8277^th most popular in all topics.

The 179^th most popular in taxon.

In June 2026 the article “ソバ” was edited by 1 authors in Japanese Wikipedia and written by 10 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “ソバ”, its content was written by 142 registered users of Japanese Wikipedia and edited by 2326 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Fagopyrum esculentum is on the 620^th place in local ranking of taxon in Japanese Wikipedia and on the 179^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 390 times in Japanese Wikipedia and cited 4836 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Japanese): #228 in January 2010
• Global: #2592 in September 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Japanese): #12778 in October 2012
• Global: #357 in January 2014

There are 53 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) Buckwheat		78.413
2	Greek (el) Φαγόπυρον το εδώδιμον		78.2295
3	Malay (ms) Gandum kuda		77.1726
4	German (de) Echter Buchweizen		69.4876
5	Japanese (ja) ソバ		65.68
6	French (fr) Sarrasin commun		61.7446
7	Slovenian (sl) Ajda		61.1556
8	Tamil (ta) நெளிகோதுமை		58.8218
9	Estonian (et) Harilik tatar		58.736
10	Catalan (ca) Fajol		58.6804

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Buckwheat		13 715 522
2	French (fr) Sarrasin commun		2 609 911
3	German (de) Echter Buchweizen		2 142 344
4	Russian (ru) Гречиха посевная		1 842 273
5	Spanish (es) Fagopyrum esculentum		1 548 967
6	Italian (it) Fagopyrum esculentum		1 351 137
7	Japanese (ja) ソバ		1 293 275
8	Dutch (nl) Boekweit		748 010
9	Hungarian (hu) Hajdina		622 502
10	Chinese (zh) 蕎麥		560 528

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) Buckwheat		31 057
2	French (fr) Sarrasin commun		8 389
3	Russian (ru) Гречиха посевная		7 206
4	Spanish (es) Fagopyrum esculentum		5 287
5	German (de) Echter Buchweizen		4 580
6	Italian (it) Fagopyrum esculentum		4 078
7	Japanese (ja) ソバ		3 167
8	Dutch (nl) Boekweit		2 857
9	Chinese (zh) 蕎麥		2 175
10	Turkish (tr) Fagopyrum esculentum		1 785

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Buckwheat		479
2	French (fr) Sarrasin commun		229
3	German (de) Echter Buchweizen		206
4	Japanese (ja) ソバ		142
5	Russian (ru) Гречиха посевная		137
6	Dutch (nl) Boekweit		115
7	Italian (it) Fagopyrum esculentum		97
8	Hebrew (he) כוסמת		70
9	Spanish (es) Fagopyrum esculentum		60
10	Hungarian (hu) Hajdina		58

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	Urdu (ur) گندم سیاہ		2
2	Catalan (ca) Fajol		1
3	Basque (eu) Suge-ilar		1
4	Galician (gl) Trigo mouro		1
5	Japanese (ja) ソバ		1
6	Russian (ru) Гречиха посевная		1
7	Slovenian (sl) Ajda		1
8	Tamil (ta) நெளிகோதுமை		1
9	Vietnamese (vi) Mạch ba góc		1
10	Arabic (ar) نضم معروف		0

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

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