Octet rule

Quality:

Octet rule - chemical rule of thumb. Article “Octet rule” in Simple English Wikipedia has 4.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 2 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Octet rule”, its content was written by 10 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 986 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 8 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1228 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #606 in September 2018
• Global: #6246 in July 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #685 in January 2014
• Global: #10886 in October 2013

There are 42 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	English (en) Octet rule		45.6608
2	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Oktetno pravilo		35.8106
3	Indonesian (id) Kaidah oktet		33.8518
4	Armenian (hy) Ութնյակի կանոն		33.0686
5	Malay (ms) Peraturan oktet		26.8521
6	Serbian (sr) Oktetno pravilo		26.7008
7	Hungarian (hu) Oktettszabály		25.9051
8	Korean (ko) 옥텟 규칙		24.8334
9	Tamil (ta) எண்ம விதி		24.0958
10	Chinese (zh) 八隅體規則		23.028

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Regla del octeto		5 352 729
2	English (en) Octet rule		2 711 439
3	German (de) Oktettregel		789 483
4	French (fr) Règle de l'octet		665 602
5	Portuguese (pt) Regra do octeto		597 308
6	Italian (it) Regola dell'ottetto		591 473
7	Chinese (zh) 八隅體規則		368 408
8	Indonesian (id) Kaidah oktet		358 524
9	Japanese (ja) オクテット則		274 146
10	Danish (da) Oktetreglen		212 048

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) Octet rule		5 111
2	Spanish (es) Regla del octeto		3 364
3	Japanese (ja) オクテット則		1 201
4	Chinese (zh) 八隅體規則		1 063
5	Portuguese (pt) Regra do octeto		1 034
6	Korean (ko) 옥텟 규칙		900
7	German (de) Oktettregel		636
8	Simple English (simple) Octet rule		634
9	Italian (it) Regola dell'ottetto		489
10	French (fr) Règle de l'octet		441

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Octet rule		169
2	Spanish (es) Regla del octeto		121
3	German (de) Oktettregel		118
4	French (fr) Règle de l'octet		61
5	Italian (it) Regola dell'ottetto		52
6	Norwegian (no) Åtteregelen		48
7	Portuguese (pt) Regra do octeto		43
8	Korean (ko) 옥텟 규칙		36
9	Danish (da) Oktetreglen		35
10	Hebrew (he) כלל האוקטט		31

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	Spanish (es) Regla del octeto		2
2	English (en) Octet rule		1
3	Esperanto (eo) Okopa regulo		1
4	Japanese (ja) オクテット則		1
5	Korean (ko) 옥텟 규칙		1
6	Chinese (zh) 八隅體規則		1
7	Arabic (ar) قاعدة الثمانيات		0
8	Azerbaijani (az) Oktet qaydası		0
9	Catalan (ca) Regla de l'octet		0
10	Czech (cs) Oktetové pravidlo		0

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

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