Metaphor

Quality:

Metaphor - figure of speech in which one thing is asserted to be another when it is in fact not so, based on properties of the latter that apply to the former, pointing to similarity. Article “Metaphor” in Simple English Wikipedia has 33.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 6 references and 13 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 1765^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 2047^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1336^th most popular in all topics.

The 3772^nd most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 2041^st most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Metaphor” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (2041^st place) and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Metaphor”, its content was written by 58 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (2047^th place) and edited by 4089 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3772^nd place).

The article is cited 133 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 20618 times in all languages (8365^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #59 in January 2013
• Global: #173 in January 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #225 in September 2011
• Global: #463 in September 2009

There are 52 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	English (en) Metaphor		81.7575
2	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Metafor		76.5875
3	French (fr) Métaphore		76.1864
4	German (de) Metapher		68.106
5	Latin (la) Metaphora		52.5344
6	Polish (pl) Metafora		44.0332
7	Simple English (simple) Metaphor		33.3027
8	Spanish (es) Metáfora		30.2766
9	Czech (cs) Metafora		29.0992
10	Finnish (fi) Metafora		28.5957

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Metaphor		19 825 907
2	Spanish (es) Metáfora		15 053 505
3	Russian (ru) Метафора		7 587 981
4	German (de) Metapher		5 996 676
5	Portuguese (pt) Metáfora		4 176 867
6	French (fr) Métaphore		3 863 860
7	Polish (pl) Metafora		3 416 062
8	Japanese (ja) メタファー		2 452 985
9	Italian (it) Metafora		2 099 549
10	Arabic (ar) استعارة		1 441 777

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) Metaphor		13 634
2	German (de) Metapher		4 646
3	Japanese (ja) メタファー		4 100
4	Russian (ru) Метафора		3 651
5	Spanish (es) Metáfora		2 923
6	French (fr) Métaphore		2 865
7	Georgian (ka) მეტაფორა		1 778
8	Persian (fa) استعاره		1 528
9	Polish (pl) Metafora		1 009
10	Italian (it) Metafora		990

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Metaphor		1 160
2	German (de) Metapher		409
3	Spanish (es) Metáfora		272
4	French (fr) Métaphore		237
5	Russian (ru) Метафора		144
6	Polish (pl) Metafora		138
7	Italian (it) Metafora		132
8	Portuguese (pt) Metáfora		125
9	Hebrew (he) מטפורה		105
10	Dutch (nl) Metafoor		100

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) Metàfora		1
2	Esperanto (eo) Metaforo		1
3	Spanish (es) Metáfora		1
4	Persian (fa) استعاره		1
5	Indonesian (id) Metafora		1
6	Japanese (ja) メタファー		1
7	Romanian (ro) Metaforă		1
8	Simple English (simple) Metaphor		1
9	Vietnamese (vi) Ẩn dụ		1
10	Arabic (ar) استعارة		0

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

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information