Bay leaf

Quality:

Bay leaf - aromatic leaf of Laurus nobilis. Article “Bay leaf” in Simple English Wikipedia has 6.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

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

Since the creation of article “Bay leaf”, its content was written by 6 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 522 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 106 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3316 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #960 in May 2021
• Global: #192 in April 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1737 in September 2014
• Global: #26462 in April 2020

There are 25 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) Bay leaf		51.1513
2	Chinese (zh) 月桂葉		47.9459
3	Vietnamese (vi) Lá nguyệt quế		41.3124
4	Hindi (hi) तेज पत्ता (बे लीफ)		36.8985
5	French (fr) Feuille de laurier		36.2462
6	Arabic (ar) ورق الغار		34.1976
7	Malay (ms) Daun salam		30.4707
8	Portuguese (pt) Folha de louro		29.9824
9	Thai (th) ใบกระวาน		28.5378
10	Finnish (fi) Laakerinlehti		28.4697

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Bay leaf		7 006 455
2	Japanese (ja) ローリエ		1 121 324
3	Russian (ru) Лавровый лист		438 356
4	Chinese (zh) 月桂葉		426 611
5	Polish (pl) Liść laurowy		220 769
6	Czech (cs) Bobkový list		211 168
7	Hindi (hi) तेज पत्ता (बे लीफ)		175 913
8	French (fr) Feuille de laurier		166 943
9	Finnish (fi) Laakerinlehti		112 289
10	Bulgarian (bg) Дафинов лист		110 518

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) Bay leaf		15 578
2	Chinese (zh) 月桂葉		1 524
3	Russian (ru) Лавровый лист		1 260
4	Japanese (ja) ローリエ		1 160
5	French (fr) Feuille de laurier		920
6	Malay (ms) Daun salam		877
7	Portuguese (pt) Folha de louro		832
8	Polish (pl) Liść laurowy		751
9	Czech (cs) Bobkový list		567
10	Finnish (fi) Laakerinlehti		360

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Bay leaf		261
2	Russian (ru) Лавровый лист		39
3	Czech (cs) Bobkový list		33
4	Japanese (ja) ローリエ		32
5	French (fr) Feuille de laurier		18
6	Polish (pl) Liść laurowy		18
7	Finnish (fi) Laakerinlehti		17
8	Hindi (hi) तेज पत्ता (बे लीफ)		15
9	Bulgarian (bg) Дафинов лист		13
10	Chinese (zh) 月桂葉		10

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	English (en) Bay leaf		1
2	Arabic (ar) ورق الغار		0
3	Azerbaijani (az) Dəfnə yarpağı		0
4	Belarusian (be) Лаўровы ліст		0
5	Bulgarian (bg) Дафинов лист		0
6	Czech (cs) Bobkový list		0
7	Estonian (et) Loorber		0
8	Persian (fa) برگ‌خشک برگ بو		0
9	Finnish (fi) Laakerinlehti		0
10	French (fr) Feuille de laurier		0

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

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