Desire

Desire - emotion of longing or hoping for a person, object, or outcome. Article “Desire” in Simple English Wikipedia has 21.8 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 “Desire”, its content was written by 1 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 846 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 76 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3770 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #16536 in August 2021
• Global: #31513 in September 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #12687 in December 2025
• Global: #13895 in December 2010

There are 29 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) Desire		89.5714
2	Portuguese (pt) Desejo		81.1876
3	Spanish (es) Deseo		72.1849
4	Basque (eu) Desira		43.3546
5	Persian (fa) میل (روان‌شناسی)		35.9266
6	German (de) Begierde		33.6358
7	Hungarian (hu) Vágy		28.8579
8	Czech (cs) Touha		27.7863
9	Tamil (ta) அவா		26.7772
10	French (fr) Désir		23.7106

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Desire" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Desire		2 799 654
2	Spanish (es) Deseo		2 185 947
3	Japanese (ja) 欲		1 564 551
4	French (fr) Désir		1 208 653
5	German (de) Begierde		564 106
6	Portuguese (pt) Desejo		558 105
7	Polish (pl) Pożądanie		478 974
8	Chinese (zh) 慾望		281 803
9	Arabic (ar) رغبة		173 129
10	Norwegian (no) Begjær		118 783

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Desire" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Desire		4 776
2	Japanese (ja) 欲		2 245
3	German (de) Begierde		1 074
4	French (fr) Désir		1 019
5	Spanish (es) Deseo		855
6	Persian (fa) میل (روان‌شناسی)		723
7	Polish (pl) Pożądanie		656
8	Chinese (zh) 慾望		623
9	Portuguese (pt) Desejo		470
10	Vietnamese (vi) Dục vọng		368

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

Language versions of the article "Desire" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Desire		163
2	French (fr) Désir		160
3	Spanish (es) Deseo		92
4	Japanese (ja) 欲		84
5	German (de) Begierde		68
6	Portuguese (pt) Desejo		38
7	Turkish (tr) Özlem		27
8	Polish (pl) Pożądanie		25
9	Danish (da) Begær		24
10	Chinese (zh) 慾望		23

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

Language versions of the article "Desire" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Basque (eu) Desira		1
2	Japanese (ja) 欲		1
3	Romanian (ro) Dorință		1
4	Arabic (ar) رغبة		0
5	Bulgarian (bg) Желание		0
6	Czech (cs) Touha		0
7	Danish (da) Begær		0
8	German (de) Begierde		0
9	English (en) Desire		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Avido		0

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

Language versions of the article "Desire" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Desire		504
2	Japanese (ja) 欲		400
3	French (fr) Désir		387
4	Portuguese (pt) Desejo		294
5	Chinese (zh) 慾望		221
6	Spanish (es) Deseo		209
7	Korean (ko) 욕구		208
8	Arabic (ar) رغبة		188
9	German (de) Begierde		146
10	Persian (fa) میل (روان‌شناسی)		145

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic رغبة
bg	Bulgarian Желание
cs	Czech Touha
da	Danish Begær
de	German Begierde
en	English Desire
eo	Esperanto Avido
es	Spanish Deseo
et	Estonian Himu
eu	Basque Desira
fa	Persian میل (روان‌شناسی)
fi	Finnish Halu
fr	French Désir
hi	Hindi इच्छा
hu	Hungarian Vágy
id	Indonesian Hasrat
ja	Japanese 欲
ko	Korean 욕구
no	Norwegian Begjær
pl	Polish Pożądanie
pt	Portuguese Desejo
ro	Romanian Dorință
simple	Simple English Desire
sk	Slovak Túžba
ta	Tamil அவா
tr	Turkish Özlem
ur	Urdu خواہش
vi	Vietnamese Dục vọng
zh	Chinese 慾望

Best Rank

Simple English: #12687 12.2025

Global: #13895 12.2010

Best Rank

Simple English: #16536 08.2021

Global: #31513 09.2008

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