Leech

Quality:

Leech - subclass of annelids. This taxon is the 273^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 564^th most popular taxon in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Leech” in Simple English Wikipedia has 26.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 4 references and 1 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

The 564^th most popular in taxon in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9250^th most popular in AI.

The 273^rd most popular in taxon.

Since the creation of article “Leech”, its content was written by 24 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2670 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (9250^th place).

Leech is on the 564^th place in local ranking of taxon in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 273^rd place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 20 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 4150 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #765 in August 2006
• Global: #1156 in June 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #887 in January 2026
• Global: #5361 in August 2015

There are 53 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	Malay (ms) Lintah		100
2	English (en) Leech		93.2412
3	Indonesian (id) Lintah		91.9295
4	Italian (it) Hirudinea		70.418
5	Chinese (zh) 蛭		63.194
6	French (fr) Hirudinea		62.1633
7	Tamil (ta) அட்டை		45.2965
8	Polish (pl) Pijawki		38.0453
9	Hungarian (hu) Piócák		33.9611
10	Persian (fa) زالو		32.4997

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Leech		9 845 651
2	Japanese (ja) ヒル (動物)		2 580 974
3	Russian (ru) Пиявки		1 669 599
4	Spanish (es) Hirudinea		1 602 431
5	French (fr) Hirudinea		948 254
6	Portuguese (pt) Sanguessuga		917 020
7	Chinese (zh) 蛭		781 532
8	Italian (it) Hirudinea		739 394
9	Polish (pl) Pijawki		704 949
10	German (de) Egel		652 343

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) Leech		25 215
2	Japanese (ja) ヒル (動物)		5 737
3	Chinese (zh) 蛭		4 460
4	Russian (ru) Пиявки		4 127
5	Spanish (es) Hirudinea		3 399
6	Italian (it) Hirudinea		2 762
7	French (fr) Hirudinea		2 170
8	German (de) Egel		2 160
9	Polish (pl) Pijawki		1 798
10	Persian (fa) زالو		1 780

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Leech		768
2	German (de) Egel		189
3	French (fr) Hirudinea		150
4	Russian (ru) Пиявки		127
5	Italian (it) Hirudinea		119
6	Dutch (nl) Bloedzuigers		114
7	Portuguese (pt) Sanguessuga		81
8	Spanish (es) Hirudinea		74
9	Hebrew (he) עלוקות		65
10	Hungarian (hu) Piócák		63

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	Dutch (nl) Bloedzuigers		3
2	Basque (eu) Hirudinea		1
3	Hebrew (he) עלוקות		1
4	Japanese (ja) ヒル (動物)		1
5	Arabic (ar) علقيات		0
6	Azerbaijani (az) Zəlilər		0
7	Belarusian (be) П’яўкі		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Пиявици		0
9	Catalan (ca) Hirudinis		0
10	Czech (cs) Pijavice		0

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

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