Pentatonic scale

Quality:

Pentatonic scale - musical scale with 5 pitches per octave. Article “Pentatonic scale” in Simple English Wikipedia has 2.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

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 “Pentatonic scale”, its content was written by 11 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1278 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 40 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2829 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1004 in May 2008
• Global: #360 in October 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1510 in June 2009
• Global: #7910 in August 2009

There are 36 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) Pentatonic scale		89.5454
2	Hungarian (hu) Pentatónia		57.6014
3	German (de) Pentatonik		56.7522
4	Spanish (es) Escala pentatónica		45.7025
5	French (fr) Gamme pentatonique		38.4117
6	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Femtoneskala		37.1872
7	Greek (el) Πεντατονική κλίμακα		32.658
8	Italian (it) Scala pentatonica		31.8957
9	Catalan (ca) Escala pentatònica		26.2864
10	Persian (fa) گام پنتاتونیک		23.9477

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Pentatonic scale		7 477 073
2	Spanish (es) Escala pentatónica		1 801 619
3	German (de) Pentatonik		1 636 133
4	Portuguese (pt) Escala pentatônica		926 799
5	Italian (it) Scala pentatonica		795 467
6	French (fr) Gamme pentatonique		707 688
7	Japanese (ja) 五音音階		651 301
8	Russian (ru) Пентатоника		627 015
9	Polish (pl) Pentatonika		347 621
10	Chinese (zh) 五聲音階		328 450

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) Pentatonic scale		18 186
2	German (de) Pentatonik		2 996
3	French (fr) Gamme pentatonique		2 487
4	Japanese (ja) 五音音階		1 930
5	Spanish (es) Escala pentatónica		1 774
6	Italian (it) Scala pentatonica		1 745
7	Russian (ru) Пентатоника		1 328
8	Chinese (zh) 五聲音階		1 288
9	Portuguese (pt) Escala pentatônica		1 215
10	Vietnamese (vi) Ngũ cung (âm giai)		659

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Pentatonic scale		334
2	German (de) Pentatonik		162
3	French (fr) Gamme pentatonique		111
4	Italian (it) Scala pentatonica		88
5	Spanish (es) Escala pentatónica		56
6	Dutch (nl) Pentatoniek		48
7	Hebrew (he) סולם פנטטוני		45
8	Russian (ru) Пентатоника		45
9	Portuguese (pt) Escala pentatônica		37
10	Hungarian (hu) Pentatónia		34

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	English (en) Pentatonic scale		2
2	Chinese (zh) 五聲音階		2
3	Italian (it) Scala pentatonica		1
4	Portuguese (pt) Escala pentatônica		1
5	Arabic (ar) سلم خماسي (موسيقى)		0
6	Catalan (ca) Escala pentatònica		0
7	Czech (cs) Pentatonika		0
8	Danish (da) Pentaton		0
9	German (de) Pentatonik		0
10	Greek (el) Πεντατονική κλίμακα		0

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

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