List of common misconceptions

Quality:

List of common misconceptions - Wikimedia list article. Article “List of common misconceptions” in Simple English Wikipedia has 95 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 276 references and 25 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 5 points.

This article has the best quality in Swedish 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 3985^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 3267^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6088^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 1557^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 4615^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “List of common misconceptions” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (4615^th place) and written by 14 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “List of common misconceptions”, its content was written by 46 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (3267^th place) and edited by 3277 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (6088^th place).

The article is cited 2 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 379 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #105 in January 2026
• Global: #102 in January 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #826 in May 2026
• Global: #77 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, 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	Swedish (sv) Lista över vanliga missuppfattningar		100
2	Ukrainian (uk) Список поширених хибних уявлень		100
3	Croatian (hr) Popis uobičajenih zabluda		100
4	Romanian (ro) Listă de concepții greșite		96.5706
5	Portuguese (pt) Lista de equívocos comuns		96.217
6	Turkish (tr) Yaygın yanlış fikirler listesi		96.141
7	Vietnamese (vi) Danh sách quan niệm sai lầm phổ biến		95.9873
8	Simple English (simple) List of common misconceptions		95
9	Thai (th) รายการความเข้าใจผิดที่พบบ่อย		95
10	Persian (fa) فهرست باورهای نادرست رایج		89.8182

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) List of common misconceptions		27 335 536
2	French (fr) Liste d'idées reçues		263 237
3	Persian (fa) فهرست باورهای نادرست رایج		114 676
4	Simple English (simple) List of common misconceptions		105 425
5	Hungarian (hu) Gyakori tévedések listája		57 223
6	Turkish (tr) Yaygın yanlış fikirler listesi		41 892
7	Korean (ko) 일반적인 오해 목록		28 476
8	Ukrainian (uk) Список поширених хибних уявлень		28 015
9	Portuguese (pt) Lista de equívocos comuns		24 759
10	Swedish (sv) Lista över vanliga missuppfattningar		21 166

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		33 183
2	Swedish (sv) Lista över vanliga missuppfattningar		1 633
3	French (fr) Liste d'idées reçues		767
4	Simple English (simple) List of common misconceptions		683
5	Portuguese (pt) Lista de equívocos comuns		462
6	Persian (fa) فهرست باورهای نادرست رایج		242
7	Ukrainian (uk) Список поширених хибних уявлень		231
8	Turkish (tr) Yaygın yanlış fikirler listesi		158
9	Croatian (hr) Popis uobičajenih zabluda		82
10	Thai (th) รายการความเข้าใจผิดที่พบบ่อย		51

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		2 715
2	French (fr) Liste d'idées reçues		189
3	Hungarian (hu) Gyakori tévedések listája		54
4	Simple English (simple) List of common misconceptions		46
5	Persian (fa) فهرست باورهای نادرست رایج		42
6	Turkish (tr) Yaygın yanlış fikirler listesi		31
7	Korean (ko) 일반적인 오해 목록		29
8	Swedish (sv) Lista över vanliga missuppfattningar		27
9	Hindi (hi) प्रचलित गलत धारणाओं की सूची		25
10	Ukrainian (uk) Список поширених хибних уявлень		25

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	Catalan (ca) Llista d'equívocs comuns		2
2	English (en) List of common misconceptions		2
3	French (fr) Liste d'idées reçues		2
4	Ukrainian (uk) Список поширених хибних уявлень		2
5	Arabic (ar) قائمة المعتقدات الخاطئة		1
6	Persian (fa) فهرست باورهای نادرست رایج		1
7	Hungarian (hu) Gyakori tévedések listája		1
8	Indonesian (id) Daftar kesalahpahaman umum		1
9	Simple English (simple) List of common misconceptions		1
10	Swedish (sv) Lista över vanliga missuppfattningar		1

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

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