List of common misconceptions

Quality:

List of common misconceptions - Wikimedia list article. Article “List of common misconceptions” in Simple English Wikipedia has 100 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 276 references and 25 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 4152^nd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 3187^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9611^th most popular in all topics.

The 5711^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 7004^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8158^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “List of common misconceptions” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (7004^th place) and written by 14 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “List of common misconceptions”, its content was written by 45 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (3187^th place) and edited by 3330 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (5711^th place).

The article is cited 3 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 645 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #246 in April 2018
• Global: #49 in December 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #854 in July 2013
• Global: #73 in January 2011

There are 19 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	Simple English (simple) List of common misconceptions		100
2	Swedish (sv) Lista över vanliga missuppfattningar		100
3	Croatian (hr) Popis uobičajenih zabluda		100
4	Romanian (ro) Listă de concepții greșite		96.743
5	Portuguese (pt) Lista de equívocos comuns		96.2443
6	Turkish (tr) Yaygın yanlış fikirler listesi		96.2098
7	Vietnamese (vi) Danh sách quan niệm sai lầm phổ biến		96.173
8	Ukrainian (uk) Список поширених хибних уявлень		95
9	Thai (th) รายการความเข้าใจผิดที่พบบ่อย		95
10	Persian (fa) فهرست باورهای نادرست رایج		94.5455

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) List of common misconceptions		27 079 853
2	French (fr) Liste d'idées reçues		247 371
3	Persian (fa) فهرست باورهای نادرست رایج		111 885
4	Simple English (simple) List of common misconceptions		97 329
5	Hungarian (hu) Gyakori tévedések listája		55 923
6	Turkish (tr) Yaygın yanlış fikirler listesi		38 693
7	Korean (ko) 일반적인 오해 목록		27 891
8	Portuguese (pt) Lista de equívocos comuns		17 136
9	Arabic (ar) قائمة المعتقدات الخاطئة		16 767
10	Swedish (sv) Lista över vanliga missuppfattningar		15 628

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) List of common misconceptions		126 642
2	French (fr) Liste d'idées reçues		2 003
3	Portuguese (pt) Lista de equívocos comuns		1 208
4	Simple English (simple) List of common misconceptions		529
5	Turkish (tr) Yaygın yanlış fikirler listesi		215
6	Swedish (sv) Lista över vanliga missuppfattningar		210
7	Persian (fa) فهرست باورهای نادرست رایج		196
8	Ukrainian (uk) Список поширених хибних уявлень		165
9	Hungarian (hu) Gyakori tévedések listája		130
10	Croatian (hr) Popis uobičajenih zabluda		122

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) List of common misconceptions		2 795
2	French (fr) Liste d'idées reçues		180
3	Hungarian (hu) Gyakori tévedések listája		51
4	Simple English (simple) List of common misconceptions		45
5	Persian (fa) فهرست باورهای نادرست رایج		42
6	Korean (ko) 일반적인 오해 목록		29
7	Turkish (tr) Yaygın yanlış fikirler listesi		29
8	Swedish (sv) Lista över vanliga missuppfattningar		26
9	Hindi (hi) प्रचलित गलत धारणाओं की सूची		25
10	Ukrainian (uk) Список поширених хибних уявлень		23

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	French (fr) Liste d'idées reçues		4
2	English (en) List of common misconceptions		3
3	Croatian (hr) Popis uobičajenih zabluda		2
4	Ukrainian (uk) Список поширених хибних уявлень		2
5	Catalan (ca) Llista d'equívocs comuns		1
6	Simple English (simple) List of common misconceptions		1
7	Swedish (sv) Lista över vanliga missuppfattningar		1
8	Arabic (ar) قائمة المعتقدات الخاطئة		0
9	Persian (fa) فهرست باورهای نادرست رایج		0
10	Hindi (hi) प्रचलित गलत धारणाओं की सूची		0

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

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