Salt

Quality:

Salt - ionic compound composed of cations and anions. Article “Salt” in Simple English Wikipedia has 21.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 4 references and 4 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 3467^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 950^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5712^th most popular in all topics.

The 5996^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 5511^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Salt”, its content was written by 86 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (950^th place) and edited by 3299 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (5996^th place).

The article is cited 481 times in Simple English Wikipedia (5362^nd place) and cited 23140 times in all languages (7384^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #38 in June 2006
• Global: #718 in July 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #178 in November 2025
• Global: #2173 in October 2017

There are 54 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) Salt (chemistry)		100
2	Basque (eu) Gatz (kimika)		71.1507
3	Greek (el) Άλας		57.8671
4	Catalan (ca) Sal (química)		56.6407
5	German (de) Salze		56.0154
6	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Sol		55.7477
7	Ukrainian (uk) Солі (хімія)		55.5018
8	Serbian (sr) Со		52.711
9	Spanish (es) Sal (química)		50.3743
10	Chinese (zh) 盐 (化学)		49.3319

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Salt (chemistry)		9 857 960
2	Spanish (es) Sal (química)		6 656 045
3	Russian (ru) Соли		2 963 980
4	German (de) Salze		2 532 236
5	Portuguese (pt) Sal		1 761 785
6	Italian (it) Sale		1 401 402
7	Indonesian (id) Garam (kimia)		1 344 388
8	Polish (pl) Sole		1 295 826
9	Ukrainian (uk) Солі (хімія)		1 085 198
10	Kazakh (kk) Тұздар (химия)		832 699

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) Salt (chemistry)		11 965
2	Hungarian (hu) Só		4 132
3	German (de) Salze		2 700
4	Russian (ru) Соли		2 525
5	Japanese (ja) 塩 (化学)		1 554
6	Portuguese (pt) Sal		1 128
7	Italian (it) Sale		1 051
8	French (fr) Sel (chimie)		968
9	Chinese (zh) 盐 (化学)		901
10	Finnish (fi) Suola		710

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Salt (chemistry)		820
2	German (de) Salze		264
3	Italian (it) Sale		159
4	Spanish (es) Sal (química)		138
5	Russian (ru) Соли		119
6	Dutch (nl) Zout (scheikunde)		103
7	Hebrew (he) מלח (כימיה)		92
8	Polish (pl) Sole		89
9	Chinese (zh) 盐 (化学)		89
10	Danish (da) Salt (kemi)		88

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) Salt (chemistry)		2
2	Azerbaijani (az) Duz (kimya)		1
3	Catalan (ca) Sal (química)		1
4	Basque (eu) Gatz (kimika)		1
5	Italian (it) Sale		1
6	Korean (ko) 염		1
7	Polish (pl) Sole		1
8	Arabic (ar) ملح (كيمياء)		0
9	Belarusian (be) Солі		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Сол		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