Brake

Quality:

Brake - mechanical device that inhibits motion. Article “Brake” in Simple English Wikipedia has 13.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 1 references and 2 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Brake”, its content was written by 18 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1637 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 34 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 12432 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #663 in May 2023
• Global: #1192 in July 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #6881 in February 2010
• Global: #17394 in July 2008

There are 39 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	Catalan (ca) Fre		68.4319
2	English (en) Brake		52.0481
3	French (fr) Frein		45.4329
4	Croatian (hr) Kočnice		44.6471
5	Basque (eu) Balazta		43.4424
6	German (de) Bremse		34.1824
7	Persian (fa) ترمز		27.7824
8	Tamil (ta) நிறுத்தி		25.9373
9	Russian (ru) Фрикционный тормоз		25.8582
10	Slovak (sk) Brzda		25.5726

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Brake		3 013 302
2	Spanish (es) Freno		1 127 242
3	German (de) Bremse		804 934
4	French (fr) Frein		793 612
5	Japanese (ja) ブレーキ		686 808
6	Italian (it) Freno		443 297
7	Polish (pl) Hamulec		344 908
8	Chinese (zh) 煞車		232 968
9	Arabic (ar) مكبح		179 565
10	Indonesian (id) Rem		178 989

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) Brake		3 371
2	German (de) Bremse		953
3	Japanese (ja) ブレーキ		719
4	Chinese (zh) 煞車		529
5	French (fr) Frein		494
6	Spanish (es) Freno		420
7	Italian (it) Freno		405
8	Czech (cs) Brzda		162
9	Russian (ru) Фрикционный тормоз		144
10	Persian (fa) ترمز		135

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Brake		299
2	German (de) Bremse		249
3	French (fr) Frein		154
4	Italian (it) Freno		87
5	Japanese (ja) ブレーキ		85
6	Dutch (nl) Rem		74
7	Spanish (es) Freno		73
8	Swedish (sv) Broms		50
9	Chinese (zh) 煞車		44
10	Czech (cs) Brzda		40

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	Spanish (es) Freno		3
2	Catalan (ca) Fre		1
3	German (de) Bremse		1
4	Basque (eu) Balazta		1
5	French (fr) Frein		1
6	Croatian (hr) Kočnice		1
7	Japanese (ja) ブレーキ		1
8	Arabic (ar) مكبح		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) Əyləc		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Спирачка		0

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

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