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King Lear

Quality:

King Lear - tragedy by William Shakespeare. This book is the 152nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 101st most popular book in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “King Lear” in Simple English Wikipedia has 9.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

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

Achievements in all the time:
Simple English Wikipedia:
The 9489th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.
Global Wikipedia:
The 9657th most popular in AI.
The 152nd most popular in books.

Since the creation of article “King Lear”, its content was written by 20 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2569 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (9657th place).

King Lear is on the 101st place in local ranking of books in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 152nd place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 70 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 11143 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #437 in March 2009
  • Global: #2273 in March 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #2583 in May 2018
  • Global: #5274 in October 2018

There are 46 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Bulgarian (bg)
Крал Лир
100
2English (en)
King Lear
95.49
3German (de)
König Lear
87.1429
4Indonesian (id)
Raja Lear
82.4374
5Swedish (sv)
Kung Lear
71.3721
6Russian (ru)
Король Лир
63.5792
7Chinese (zh)
李爾王
62.6393
8French (fr)
Le Roi Lear
61.3624
9Portuguese (pt)
Rei Lear
43.7383
10Ukrainian (uk)
Король Лір
42.3288
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "King Lear" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
King Lear
12 764 651
2Spanish (es)
El rey Lear
1 609 786
3Japanese (ja)
リア王
1 432 628
4Russian (ru)
Король Лир
1 353 166
5German (de)
König Lear
1 159 286
6French (fr)
Le Roi Lear
1 131 802
7Italian (it)
Re Lear
987 442
8Chinese (zh)
李爾王
754 460
9Portuguese (pt)
Rei Lear
590 366
10Polish (pl)
Król Lear
410 988
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "King Lear" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
King Lear
56 412
2Japanese (ja)
リア王
5 921
3Russian (ru)
Король Лир
5 436
4German (de)
König Lear
3 977
5Spanish (es)
El rey Lear
3 772
6French (fr)
Le Roi Lear
2 833
7Italian (it)
Re Lear
2 675
8Chinese (zh)
李爾王
2 558
9Portuguese (pt)
Rei Lear
2 322
10Persian (fa)
شاه لیر
2 065
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "King Lear" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
King Lear
835
2German (de)
König Lear
195
3French (fr)
Le Roi Lear
180
4Italian (it)
Re Lear
144
5Russian (ru)
Король Лир
118
6Spanish (es)
El rey Lear
108
7Dutch (nl)
Koning Lear
66
8Hebrew (he)
המלך ליר
62
9Norwegian (no)
Kong Lear
61
10Japanese (ja)
リア王
60
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "King Lear" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
King Lear
3
2German (de)
König Lear
2
3Russian (ru)
Король Лир
2
4French (fr)
Le Roi Lear
1
5Indonesian (id)
Raja Lear
1
6Ukrainian (uk)
Король Лір
1
7Arabic (ar)
الملك لير
0
8Belarusian (be)
Кароль Лір
0
9Bulgarian (bg)
Крал Лир
0
10Catalan (ca)
El Rei Lear
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "King Lear" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
King Lear
2 383
2German (de)
König Lear
893
3French (fr)
Le Roi Lear
834
4Russian (ru)
Король Лир
760
5Italian (it)
Re Lear
587
6Spanish (es)
El rey Lear
545
7Japanese (ja)
リア王
510
8Hebrew (he)
המלך ליר
359
9Esperanto (eo)
Reĝo Lear
316
10Swedish (sv)
Kung Lear
296
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
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Global:
Popularity in June 2025:
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Popularity in all years:
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Authors in June 2025:
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Registered authors in all years:
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Citations:
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Global:

Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
الملك لير
beBelarusian
Кароль Лір
bgBulgarian
Крал Лир
caCatalan
El Rei Lear
csCzech
Král Lear
daDanish
Kong Lear (tragedie)
deGerman
König Lear
elGreek
Βασιλιάς Ληρ
enEnglish
King Lear
eoEsperanto
Reĝo Lear
esSpanish
El rey Lear
etEstonian
Kuningas Lear
euBasque
Lear erregea
faPersian
شاه لیر
fiFinnish
Kuningas Lear
frFrench
Le Roi Lear
glGalician
O rei Lear
heHebrew
המלך ליר
hiHindi
किंग लीयर (शेक्सपीयर कृत)
hrCroatian
Kralj Lear
huHungarian
Lear király
hyArmenian
Արքա Լիր
idIndonesian
Raja Lear
itItalian
Re Lear
jaJapanese
リア王
kaGeorgian
მეფე ლირი
koKorean
리어왕
laLatin
King Lear
ltLithuanian
Karalius Lyras
msMalay
Raja Lear
nlDutch
Koning Lear
noNorwegian
Kong Lear
plPolish
Król Lear
ptPortuguese
Rei Lear
roRomanian
Regele Lear
ruRussian
Король Лир
shSerbo-Croatian
King Lear
simpleSimple English
King Lear
skSlovak
Kráľ Lear
srSerbian
Kralj Lir (drama)
svSwedish
Kung Lear
trTurkish
Kral Lear
ukUkrainian
Король Лір
urUrdu
کنگ لیئر
viVietnamese
Vua Lia
zhChinese
李爾王

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#2583
05.2018
Global:
#5274
10.2018

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#437
03.2009
Global:
#2273
03.2009

Local popularity rank history

Global popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on King Lear from Wikipedia articles about William Shakespeare, Ran, Othello, William Shakespeares plays and Pedro Pascal. Whereas reading the article about King Lear people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Leir of Britain, William Shakespeare, Cordelia, Goneril and Regan.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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