Canute

Quality:

Cnut the Great - 11th-century King of Denmark, Norway, and England. This person is the 2687^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 534^th most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Canute” in Simple English Wikipedia has 19.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 2 references and 6 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 4261^st most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 534^th most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9323^rd most popular in all topics.

The 9731^st most popular in AI.

The 2687^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 5421^st most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 7871^st most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Canute”, its content was written by 23 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2601 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (9731^st place).

Cnut the Great is on the 534^th place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 2687^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 86 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 10421 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #403 in March 2009
• Global: #915 in July 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #169 in July 2024
• Global: #156 in March 2022

There are 51 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) Cnut		99.6285
2	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Knut den mektige		98.75
3	Thai (th) พระเจ้าคนุตมหาราช		97.5512
4	Danish (da) Knud den Store		94.2042
5	French (fr) Knut le Grand		84.5952
6	Greek (el) Κνούτος		81.6204
7	Russian (ru) Кнуд Великий		81.0536
8	Japanese (ja) クヌート1世 (イングランド王)		68.4583
9	Hungarian (hu) II. Knut dán király		66.3562
10	Catalan (ca) Canut II de Dinamarca		64.0544

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Cnut		17 281 890
2	Spanish (es) Canuto II de Dinamarca		1 744 460
3	Russian (ru) Кнуд Великий		1 321 438
4	German (de) Knut der Große		1 189 454
5	French (fr) Knut le Grand		1 169 401
6	Polish (pl) Knut Wielki		1 104 006
7	Japanese (ja) クヌート1世 (イングランド王)		874 317
8	Italian (it) Canuto il Grande		649 209
9	Portuguese (pt) Canuto II da Dinamarca		554 438
10	Dutch (nl) Knoet de Grote		387 173

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) Cnut		87 861
2	Spanish (es) Canuto II de Dinamarca		7 111
3	German (de) Knut der Große		7 014
4	Russian (ru) Кнуд Великий		6 659
5	French (fr) Knut le Grand		6 314
6	Swedish (sv) Knut den store		4 874
7	Polish (pl) Knut Wielki		4 339
8	Italian (it) Canuto il Grande		3 846
9	Japanese (ja) クヌート1世 (イングランド王)		3 372
10	Portuguese (pt) Canuto II da Dinamarca		2 608

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Cnut		812
2	French (fr) Knut le Grand		144
3	German (de) Knut der Große		141
4	Italian (it) Canuto il Grande		112
5	Danish (da) Knud den Store		105
6	Russian (ru) Кнуд Великий		105
7	Dutch (nl) Knoet de Grote		95
8	Polish (pl) Knut Wielki		84
9	Spanish (es) Canuto II de Dinamarca		70
10	Hebrew (he) קנוט הגדול		62

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) Cnut		9
2	Catalan (ca) Canut II de Dinamarca		2
3	Swedish (sv) Knut den store		2
4	Arabic (ar) كنوت العظيم		1
5	Czech (cs) Knut Veliký		1
6	Esperanto (eo) Knuto la Granda		1
7	Spanish (es) Canuto II de Dinamarca		1
8	Basque (eu) Kanuto II.a Handia		1
9	Persian (fa) کانوت بزرگ		1
10	Portuguese (pt) Canuto II da Dinamarca		1

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

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