Black pepper

Quality:

Piper nigrum - species of plant. This taxon is the 246^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 331^st most popular taxon in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Black pepper” in Simple English Wikipedia has 27.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 4 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 7403^rd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 331^st most popular in taxon in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8035^th most popular in AI.

The 246^th most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 8018^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Black pepper”, its content was written by 22 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2817 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (8035^th place).

Piper nigrum is on the 331^st place in local ranking of taxon in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 246^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 159 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 15766 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1288 in January 2012
• Global: #1566 in December 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2840 in September 2022
• Global: #7607 in November 2015

There are 52 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	Greek (el) Πέπερι το μέλαν		96.0821
2	English (en) Black pepper		81.7958
3	Chinese (zh) 胡椒		77.0724
4	Japanese (ja) コショウ		76.7662
5	Malay (ms) Lada hitam		76.1565
6	Tamil (ta) மிளகு		71.2387
7	Indonesian (id) Lada		69.3144
8	German (de) Pfeffer		68.1816
9	Arabic (ar) فلفل أسود		61.0243
10	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Svart pepar		54.7508

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Black pepper		12 321 681
2	German (de) Pfeffer		2 430 486
3	Japanese (ja) コショウ		1 767 109
4	Spanish (es) Piper nigrum		950 110
5	Russian (ru) Перец чёрный		857 945
6	Portuguese (pt) Pimenta-preta		780 705
7	Italian (it) Piper nigrum		766 907
8	Dutch (nl) Peper		678 883
9	Indonesian (id) Lada		660 183
10	Chinese (zh) 胡椒		650 828

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) Black pepper		43 940
2	German (de) Pfeffer		6 174
3	Japanese (ja) コショウ		6 077
4	Russian (ru) Перец чёрный		4 408
5	Spanish (es) Piper nigrum		3 058
6	Portuguese (pt) Pimenta-preta		2 772
7	Chinese (zh) 胡椒		2 725
8	Indonesian (id) Lada		2 710
9	Italian (it) Piper nigrum		1 353
10	French (fr) Poivrier noir		1 227

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Black pepper		814
2	German (de) Pfeffer		274
3	Italian (it) Piper nigrum		128
4	Dutch (nl) Peper		124
5	Hebrew (he) פלפל שחור		111
6	Japanese (ja) コショウ		101
7	Chinese (zh) 胡椒		100
8	French (fr) Poivrier noir		72
9	Russian (ru) Перец чёрный		68
10	Portuguese (pt) Pimenta-preta		60

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) Black pepper		3
2	Italian (it) Piper nigrum		2
3	Azerbaijani (az) Qara istiot		1
4	French (fr) Poivrier noir		1
5	Indonesian (id) Lada		1
6	Arabic (ar) فلفل أسود		0
7	Belarusian (be) Перац чорны		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Черен пипер		0
9	Catalan (ca) Pebre		0
10	Czech (cs) Pepřovník černý		0

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

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