Masochism

Quality:

Masochism - trait where a subject derives gratification from their own suffering or pain. Article “Masochism” in Simple English Wikipedia has 8.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 0 references and 3 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.45 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Masochism”, its content was written by 23 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1106 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 15 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3405 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #237 in January 2010
• Global: #4905 in November 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #169 in January 2019
• Global: #11371 in May 2015

There are 34 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	French (fr) Masochisme		92.1001
2	Italian (it) Masochismo		51.2722
3	Russian (ru) Мазохизм		27.521
4	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Masochisme		26.1859
5	German (de) Masochismus		24.4856
6	Swedish (sv) Masochism		23.6572
7	Latin (la) Masochismus		23.1623
8	Basque (eu) Masokismo		22.1695
9	Romanian (ro) Masochism		21.0752
10	Lithuanian (lt) Mazochizmas		20.5725

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) Masochismus		2 921 339
2	Japanese (ja) マゾヒズム		2 903 894
3	Russian (ru) Мазохизм		2 510 051
4	Polish (pl) Masochizm		1 729 900
5	Portuguese (pt) Masoquismo		1 554 412
6	French (fr) Masochisme		1 410 057
7	Arabic (ar) مازوخية		1 260 148
8	Italian (it) Masochismo		1 114 549
9	Dutch (nl) Masochisme		481 340
10	Swedish (sv) Masochism		394 655

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) マゾヒズム		8 222
2	Russian (ru) Мазохизм		4 320
3	German (de) Masochismus		3 548
4	French (fr) Masochisme		2 366
5	Chinese (zh) 受虐癖		1 405
6	Korean (ko) 마조히즘		1 321
7	Polish (pl) Masochizm		1 313
8	Italian (it) Masochismo		1 245
9	Portuguese (pt) Masoquismo		955
10	Dutch (nl) Masochisme		659

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	French (fr) Masochisme		206
2	German (de) Masochismus		138
3	Italian (it) Masochismo		105
4	Japanese (ja) マゾヒズム		85
5	Russian (ru) Мазохизм		81
6	Hebrew (he) מזוכיזם		65
7	Polish (pl) Masochizm		54
8	Dutch (nl) Masochisme		47
9	Portuguese (pt) Masoquismo		43
10	Danish (da) Masochisme		30

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) Masochisme		2
2	Arabic (ar) مازوخية		1
3	Basque (eu) Masokismo		1
4	Polish (pl) Masochizm		1
5	Russian (ru) Мазохизм		1
6	Azerbaijani (az) Mazoxizm		0
7	Belarusian (be) Мазахізм		0
8	Danish (da) Masochisme		0
9	German (de) Masochismus		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Masoĥismo		0

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

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