Flamethrower

Quality:

Flamethrower - mechanical incendiary device designed to project a long controllable stream of fire. Article “Flamethrower” in Simple English Wikipedia has 12.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 0 references and 4 sections.

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 “Flamethrower”, its content was written by 11 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1792 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 25 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 7393 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1546 in March 2019
• Global: #3865 in January 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #14154 in January 2011
• Global: #7296 in July 2011

There are 45 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) Flamethrower		86.1252
2	Persian (fa) شعله‌افکن		84.4847
3	Hungarian (hu) Lángszóró		84.4384
4	Swedish (sv) Eldkastare		68.1111
5	Chinese (zh) 火焰喷射器		54.6935
6	German (de) Flammenwerfer		54.6619
7	Spanish (es) Lanzallamas		54.1898
8	French (fr) Lance-flammes		37.7758
9	Arabic (ar) قاذفة لهب		32.5972
10	Italian (it) Lanciafiamme		32.4173

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Flamethrower		7 188 474
2	German (de) Flammenwerfer		1 206 987
3	Japanese (ja) 火炎放射器		1 072 731
4	Russian (ru) Огнемёт		902 891
5	French (fr) Lance-flammes		539 765
6	Spanish (es) Lanzallamas		517 695
7	Italian (it) Lanciafiamme		372 256
8	Portuguese (pt) Lança-chamas		339 909
9	Polish (pl) Miotacz ognia		338 712
10	Chinese (zh) 火焰喷射器		257 984

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) Flamethrower		12 767
2	German (de) Flammenwerfer		2 380
3	Japanese (ja) 火炎放射器		2 355
4	Russian (ru) Огнемёт		1 805
5	French (fr) Lance-flammes		1 158
6	Chinese (zh) 火焰喷射器		923
7	Spanish (es) Lanzallamas		774
8	Italian (it) Lanciafiamme		652
9	Polish (pl) Miotacz ognia		603
10	Finnish (fi) Liekinheitin		314

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Flamethrower		613
2	German (de) Flammenwerfer		200
3	French (fr) Lance-flammes		118
4	Russian (ru) Огнемёт		83
5	Italian (it) Lanciafiamme		74
6	Japanese (ja) 火炎放射器		68
7	Hebrew (he) להביור		57
8	Dutch (nl) Vlammenwerper		56
9	Spanish (es) Lanzallamas		46
10	Chinese (zh) 火焰喷射器		46

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) Flamethrower		8
2	Azerbaijani (az) Odsaçan		2
3	German (de) Flammenwerfer		1
4	Greek (el) Φλογοβόλο		1
5	French (fr) Lance-flammes		1
6	Japanese (ja) 火炎放射器		1
7	Swedish (sv) Eldkastare		1
8	Arabic (ar) قاذفة لهب		0
9	Belarusian (be) Агнямёт		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Огнехвъргачка		0

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

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