The Scarlet Letter

Quality:

The Scarlet Letter - novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne. This book is the 223^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 279^th most popular book in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “The Scarlet Letter” in Simple English Wikipedia has 3.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

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:

The 279^th most popular in books in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 223^rd most popular in books.

Since the creation of article “The Scarlet Letter”, its content was written by 16 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1576 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Scarlet Letter is on the 279^th place in local ranking of books in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 223^rd place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 10 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 990 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #867 in February 2008
• Global: #5609 in October 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #330 in May 2009
• Global: #5433 in September 2010

There are 32 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) The Scarlet Letter		63.4465
2	Armenian (hy) Կարմիր տառ		43.12
3	Greek (el) Το άλικο γράμμα		40.9663
4	Chinese (zh) 红字		40.2034
5	Slovak (sk) Šarlátové písmeno		38.7644
6	Hindi (hi) द स्कार्लेट लेटर		37.4962
7	Spanish (es) La letra escarlata		28.2065
8	Arabic (ar) الحرف القرمزي		28.0387
9	Romanian (ro) Litera stacojie		27.3309
10	Czech (cs) Šarlatové písmeno		25.6077

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Scarlet Letter		12 977 774
2	Italian (it) La lettera scarlatta		1 322 925
3	Spanish (es) La letra escarlata		1 129 123
4	Russian (ru) Алая буква		644 297
5	German (de) Der scharlachrote Buchstabe		595 669
6	Japanese (ja) 緋文字		449 619
7	French (fr) La Lettre écarlate (roman)		396 770
8	Chinese (zh) 红字		309 039
9	Korean (ko) 주홍 글씨		268 344
10	Portuguese (pt) The Scarlet Letter (livro)		266 504

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) The Scarlet Letter		25 977
2	Italian (it) La lettera scarlatta		3 464
3	Spanish (es) La letra escarlata		2 122
4	French (fr) La Lettre écarlate (roman)		2 059
5	German (de) Der scharlachrote Buchstabe		1 809
6	Russian (ru) Алая буква		1 638
7	Japanese (ja) 緋文字		1 524
8	Chinese (zh) 红字		728
9	Korean (ko) 주홍 글씨		607
10	Polish (pl) Szkarłatna litera		518

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Scarlet Letter		928
2	Italian (it) La lettera scarlatta		84
3	French (fr) La Lettre écarlate (roman)		81
4	German (de) Der scharlachrote Buchstabe		80
5	Spanish (es) La letra escarlata		59
6	Russian (ru) Алая буква		36
7	Korean (ko) 주홍 글씨		31
8	Chinese (zh) 红字		31
9	Danish (da) Det flammende bogstav		24
10	Vietnamese (vi) Chữ A màu đỏ		22

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) The Scarlet Letter		3
2	Arabic (ar) الحرف القرمزي		1
3	German (de) Der scharlachrote Buchstabe		1
4	Catalan (ca) La lletra escarlata (novel·la)		0
5	Czech (cs) Šarlatové písmeno		0
6	Danish (da) Det flammende bogstav		0
7	Greek (el) Το άλικο γράμμα		0
8	Spanish (es) La letra escarlata		0
9	Persian (fa) داغ ننگ		0
10	French (fr) La Lettre écarlate (roman)		0

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

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