Simile

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Simile

Quality:

Simile - figure of speech indicating a similarity explicitly,e.g. using "like" or "as", contrasting to metaphor in which the similarity is implicit, e.g. of the form "A is B". Article “Simile” in Simple English Wikipedia has 2.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

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

Achievements in all the time:
Simple English Wikipedia:
The 7668th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

Since the creation of article “Simile”, its content was written by 16 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2001 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 7 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3093 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #154 in November 2003
  • Global: #2658 in March 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #447 in March 2016
  • Global: #4025 in September 2008

There are 45 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1French (fr)
Comparaison (rhétorique)
87.1908
2English (en)
Simile
45.3765
3Greek (el)
Παρομοίωση
36.0515
4Serbo-Croatian (sh)
Komparacija
30.7037
5Latin (la)
Similitudo
26.636
6Tamil (ta)
உவமையணி
26.1978
7Serbian (sr)
Поређење
25.9103
8Dutch (nl)
Vergelijking (beeldspraak)
25.2202
9Slovak (sk)
Prirovnanie
23.5566
10Hebrew (he)
דימוי
21.2285
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Simile" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Simile
8 313 631
2Spanish (es)
Símil
3 942 295
3Polish (pl)
Porównanie
2 032 707
4Arabic (ar)
تشبيه
1 897 202
5Portuguese (pt)
Comparação
1 408 523
6Persian (fa)
تشبیه
963 712
7Italian (it)
Similitudine (figura retorica)
830 506
8Russian (ru)
Сравнение (риторика)
732 579
9French (fr)
Comparaison (rhétorique)
493 997
10Turkish (tr)
Benzetme
471 621
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2026

The most popular language versions of the article "Simile" in June 2026
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Simile
3 880
2Persian (fa)
تشبیه
1 032
3German (de)
Vergleich (Literatur)
929
4Spanish (es)
Símil
858
5Russian (ru)
Сравнение (риторика)
500
6Tamil (ta)
உவமையணி
365
7Urdu (ur)
تشبیہ
341
8French (fr)
Comparaison (rhétorique)
333
9Polish (pl)
Porównanie
321
10Japanese (ja)
直喩
307
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Simile" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Simile
713
2Polish (pl)
Porównanie
118
3Spanish (es)
Símil
91
4French (fr)
Comparaison (rhétorique)
88
5Turkish (tr)
Benzetme
81
6Portuguese (pt)
Comparação
74
7Arabic (ar)
تشبيه
67
8Persian (fa)
تشبیه
64
9Italian (it)
Similitudine (figura retorica)
59
10German (de)
Vergleich (Literatur)
53
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2026

Language versions of the article "Simile" with the highest AI in June 2026
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Simile
1
2Latin (la)
Similitudo
1
3Uzbek (uz)
Tashbih
1
4Arabic (ar)
تشبيه
0
5Azerbaijani (az)
Təşbeh
0
6Belarusian (be)
Параўнанне (літаратуразнаўства)
0
7Bulgarian (bg)
Сравнение
0
8Catalan (ca)
Comparació
0
9Czech (cs)
Přirovnání
0
10German (de)
Vergleich (Literatur)
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Simile" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1Italian (it)
Similitudine (figura retorica)
315
2Arabic (ar)
تشبيه
313
3English (en)
Simile
303
4Hebrew (he)
דימוי
253
5French (fr)
Comparaison (rhétorique)
216
6Russian (ru)
Сравнение (риторика)
132
7Swedish (sv)
Liknelse
131
8Romanian (ro)
Comparație
130
9Persian (fa)
تشبیه
118
10Portuguese (pt)
Comparação
102
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Scores

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Popularity in all years:
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Citations:
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Global:

Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
تشبيه
azAzerbaijani
Təşbeh
beBelarusian
Параўнанне (літаратуразнаўства)
bgBulgarian
Сравнение
caCatalan
Comparació
csCzech
Přirovnání
deGerman
Vergleich (Literatur)
elGreek
Παρομοίωση
enEnglish
Simile
eoEsperanto
Komparo
esSpanish
Símil
euBasque
Konparazio
faPersian
تشبیه
frFrench
Comparaison (rhétorique)
glGalician
Símil
heHebrew
דימוי
hrCroatian
Poredba
huHungarian
Hasonlat
hyArmenian
Համեմատություն
idIndonesian
Simile
itItalian
Similitudine (figura retorica)
jaJapanese
直喩
kaGeorgian
შედარება (რიტორიკა)
koKorean
직유
laLatin
Similitudo
ltLithuanian
Palyginimas
nlDutch
Vergelijking (beeldspraak)
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Religiøs likning
noNorwegian
Simile
plPolish
Porównanie
ptPortuguese
Comparação
roRomanian
Comparație
ruRussian
Сравнение (риторика)
shSerbo-Croatian
Komparacija
simpleSimple English
Simile
skSlovak
Prirovnanie
srSerbian
Поређење
svSwedish
Liknelse
taTamil
உவமையணி
thThai
อุปมา
trTurkish
Benzetme
ukUkrainian
Порівняння (література)
urUrdu
تشبیہ
uzUzbek
Tashbih
zhChinese
明喻

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#447
03.2016
Global:
#4025
09.2008

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#154
11.2003
Global:
#2658
03.2012

Local popularity rank history

Global popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2025 – June 2026)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Simile from Wikipedia articles about Metaphor, Stylistic device, Wikipedia article, Memetic warfare and Glossary of rhetorical terms. Whereas reading the article about Simile people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Metaphor, Stylistic device, Analogy, Homeric simile and Trope.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

en: Simile
es: Símil
id: Simile
ja: 直喩
zh: 明喻
no: Simile
simple: Simile
gl: Símil
ko: 직유

News from 1 July 2026

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In Simple English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: List of European countries, Black, List of sex positions, 2026 Iran war, Suresh Raina, Politics of Germany, Academy Award for Best Director, 2020, DYSS-TV, 2022.

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