Evil clown

Quality:

Evil clown - pop culture trope and horror staple. Article “Evil clown” in Simple English Wikipedia has 3.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.19 points.

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 “Evil clown”, its content was written by 2 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1522 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 696 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1837 in December 2025
• Global: #312 in March 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #25591 in November 2016
• Global: #5490 in October 2016

There are 18 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) Evil clown		81.458
2	Chinese (zh) 小丑恐惧症		67.8793
3	German (de) Böser Clown		48.1197
4	Russian (ru) Злой клоун		45.1406
5	Italian (it) Pagliaccio malefico		31.8536
6	Catalan (ca) Pallasso malèfic		31.7248
7	Dutch (nl) Horrorclown		25.2389
8	Korean (ko) 광대공포증		25.0104
9	Portuguese (pt) Palhaço do mal		24.3926
10	Indonesian (id) Badut jahat		15.6742

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Evil clown		7 455 019
2	French (fr) Clown maléfique		304 178
3	Italian (it) Pagliaccio malefico		180 719
4	German (de) Böser Clown		144 722
5	Russian (ru) Злой клоун		48 147
6	Dutch (nl) Horrorclown		30 409
7	Swedish (sv) Ond clown		26 792
8	Spanish (es) Payaso malvado		23 874
9	Chinese (zh) 小丑恐惧症		15 433
10	Portuguese (pt) Palhaço do mal		9 939

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) Evil clown		9 284
2	Italian (it) Pagliaccio malefico		760
3	Chinese (zh) 小丑恐惧症		378
4	Russian (ru) Злой клоун		359
5	German (de) Böser Clown		346
6	French (fr) Clown maléfique		169
7	Spanish (es) Payaso malvado		161
8	Portuguese (pt) Palhaço do mal		139
9	Swedish (sv) Ond clown		137
10	Dutch (nl) Horrorclown		121

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Evil clown		946
2	German (de) Böser Clown		373
3	French (fr) Clown maléfique		90
4	Italian (it) Pagliaccio malefico		20
5	Swedish (sv) Ond clown		16
6	Dutch (nl) Horrorclown		14
7	Russian (ru) Злой клоун		13
8	Spanish (es) Payaso malvado		9
9	Chinese (zh) 小丑恐惧症		9
10	Esperanto (eo) Malica klaŭno		6

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) Evil clown		2
2	French (fr) Clown maléfique		1
3	Italian (it) Pagliaccio malefico		1
4	Korean (ko) 광대공포증		1
5	Chinese (zh) 小丑恐惧症		1
6	Arabic (ar) مهرج شرير		0
7	Catalan (ca) Pallasso malèfic		0
8	Danish (da) Ond klovn		0
9	German (de) Böser Clown		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Malica klaŭno		0

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

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