French language

Quality:

French - Romance language. Article “French language” in Simple English Wikipedia has 30.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 6 references and 9 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 159^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 501^st most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 947^th most popular in all topics.

The 254^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 1287^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 2097^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2527^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 5856^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “French language” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (2097^th place) and written by 27 authors in all languages (5856^th place).

Since the creation of article “French language”, its content was written by 116 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (501^st place) and edited by 9949 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (254^th place).

The article is cited 2686 times in Simple English Wikipedia (149^th place) and cited 961662 times in all languages (91^st place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #8 in April 2004
• Global: #31 in November 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #17 in December 2018
• Global: #554 in April 2010

There are 55 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	Croatian (hr) Francuski jezik		100
2	Esperanto (eo) Franca lingvo		95
3	Persian (fa) زبان فرانسوی		89.4857
4	Basque (eu) Frantses		85.5895
5	English (en) French language		83.73
6	Norwegian (no) Fransk		82.8455
7	French (fr) Français		81.8692
8	Catalan (ca) Francès		79.2451
9	Russian (ru) Французский язык		78.0987
10	Hungarian (hu) Francia nyelv		76.6348

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) French language		31 549 173
2	French (fr) Français		13 669 416
3	Spanish (es) Idioma francés		7 902 832
4	Russian (ru) Французский язык		7 012 846
5	German (de) Französische Sprache		5 647 929
6	Japanese (ja) フランス語		4 425 177
7	Arabic (ar) اللغة الفرنسية		2 881 131
8	Portuguese (pt) Língua francesa		2 737 897
9	Italian (it) Lingua francese		2 710 304
10	Polish (pl) Język francuski		2 182 579

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) French language		94 156
2	French (fr) Français		30 633
3	Russian (ru) Французский язык		19 287
4	German (de) Französische Sprache		14 653
5	Spanish (es) Idioma francés		13 745
6	Japanese (ja) フランス語		12 110
7	Portuguese (pt) Língua francesa		6 091
8	Persian (fa) زبان فرانسوی		6 028
9	Italian (it) Lingua francese		5 787
10	Chinese (zh) 法语		4 303

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) French language		2 478
2	French (fr) Français		1 154
3	German (de) Französische Sprache		701
4	Spanish (es) Idioma francés		458
5	Italian (it) Lingua francese		392
6	Dutch (nl) Frans		337
7	Russian (ru) Французский язык		296
8	Chinese (zh) 法语		254
9	Japanese (ja) フランス語		241
10	Polish (pl) Język francuski		184

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) French language		7
2	French (fr) Français		3
3	Turkish (tr) Fransızca		3
4	Hungarian (hu) Francia nyelv		2
5	Russian (ru) Французский язык		2
6	Vietnamese (vi) Tiếng Pháp		2
7	Azerbaijani (az) Fransız dili		1
8	Catalan (ca) Francès		1
9	Czech (cs) Francouzština		1
10	Esperanto (eo) Franca lingvo		1

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

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information