French language

Quality:

French - Romance language. Article “French language” in Simple English Wikipedia has 33.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). 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 155^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 495^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 926^th most popular in all topics.

The 249^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 1677^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2346^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 2738^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “French language”, its content was written by 113 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (495^th place) and edited by 9865 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (249^th place).

The article is cited 2600 times in Simple English Wikipedia (141^st place) and cited 925317 times in all languages (89^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #8 in April 2004
• Global: #30 in November 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #17 in December 2018
• Global: #550 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, 2025 (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		94.5011
4	English (en) French language		90.6554
5	French (fr) Français		86.1566
6	Basque (eu) Frantses		85.5114
7	Norwegian (no) Fransk		81.952
8	Catalan (ca) Francès		79.1874
9	Russian (ru) Французский язык		78.0169
10	Hungarian (hu) Francia nyelv		76.7789

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) French language		30 734 140
2	French (fr) Français		13 241 869
3	Spanish (es) Idioma francés		7 740 599
4	Russian (ru) Французский язык		6 589 340
5	German (de) Französische Sprache		5 468 602
6	Japanese (ja) フランス語		4 273 243
7	Arabic (ar) اللغة الفرنسية		2 803 976
8	Portuguese (pt) Língua francesa		2 681 732
9	Italian (it) Lingua francese		2 631 369
10	Polish (pl) Język francuski		2 130 492

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		100 490
2	Russian (ru) Французский язык		38 643
3	French (fr) Français		31 658
4	German (de) Französische Sprache		14 064
5	Spanish (es) Idioma francés		13 349
6	Japanese (ja) フランス語		12 185
7	Italian (it) Lingua francese		6 631
8	Arabic (ar) اللغة الفرنسية		6 035
9	Portuguese (pt) Língua francesa		5 785
10	Chinese (zh) 法语		5 744

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		2 429
2	French (fr) Français		1 129
3	German (de) Französische Sprache		689
4	Spanish (es) Idioma francés		441
5	Italian (it) Lingua francese		385
6	Dutch (nl) Frans		336
7	Russian (ru) Французский язык		289
8	Chinese (zh) 法语		248
9	Japanese (ja) フランス語		237
10	Polish (pl) Język francuski		180

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		6
2	French (fr) Français		6
3	Russian (ru) Французский язык		4
4	German (de) Französische Sprache		3
5	Spanish (es) Idioma francés		3
6	Italian (it) Lingua francese		3
7	Korean (ko) 프랑스어		2
8	Dutch (nl) Frans		2
9	Chinese (zh) 法语		2
10	Catalan (ca) Francès		1

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

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