The Scarlet Letter

Quality:

The Scarlet Letter - novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne. This book is the 234^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 272^nd most popular book in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “The Scarlet Letter” in Simple English Wikipedia has 3.8 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.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

The 272^nd most popular in books in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 234^th 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 1511 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Scarlet Letter is on the 272^nd place in local ranking of books in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 234^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 11 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 959 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #868 in February 2008
• Global: #5971 in October 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #333 in May 2009
• Global: #5452 in September 2010

There are 30 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) The Scarlet Letter		64.0723
2	Slovak (sk) Šarlátové písmeno		41.6025
3	Chinese (zh) 红字		40.2697
4	Greek (el) Το άλικο γράμμα		37.6597
5	Hindi (hi) द स्कार्लेट लेटर		37.5174
6	Spanish (es) La letra escarlata		28.5705
7	Arabic (ar) الحرف القرمزي		28.1887
8	Romanian (ro) Litera stacojie		26.8049
9	Czech (cs) Šarlatové písmeno		25.8255
10	Swedish (sv) Den eldröda bokstaven		25.2018

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Scarlet Letter		12 346 826
2	Italian (it) La lettera scarlatta		1 271 486
3	Spanish (es) La letra escarlata		1 098 217
4	German (de) Der scharlachrote Buchstabe		573 530
5	Russian (ru) Алая буква		563 862
6	Japanese (ja) 緋文字		431 896
7	French (fr) La Lettre écarlate (roman)		369 725
8	Chinese (zh) 红字		298 610
9	Portuguese (pt) The Scarlet Letter (livro)		259 344
10	Korean (ko) 주홍 글씨		258 065

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		34 498
2	Italian (it) La lettera scarlatta		2 930
3	Spanish (es) La letra escarlata		2 833
4	Russian (ru) Алая буква		2 064
5	Japanese (ja) 緋文字		1 936
6	French (fr) La Lettre écarlate (roman)		1 599
7	German (de) Der scharlachrote Buchstabe		1 470
8	Korean (ko) 주홍 글씨		1 347
9	Chinese (zh) 红字		901
10	Portuguese (pt) The Scarlet Letter (livro)		633

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		878
2	Italian (it) La lettera scarlatta		83
3	German (de) Der scharlachrote Buchstabe		80
4	French (fr) La Lettre écarlate (roman)		79
5	Spanish (es) La letra escarlata		59
6	Russian (ru) Алая буква		34
7	Korean (ko) 주홍 글씨		30
8	Chinese (zh) 红字		30
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	Catalan (ca) La lletra escarlata (novel·la)		3
2	English (en) The Scarlet Letter		1
3	Spanish (es) La letra escarlata		1
4	Ukrainian (uk) Червона літера		1
5	Arabic (ar) الحرف القرمزي		0
6	Czech (cs) Šarlatové písmeno		0
7	Danish (da) Det flammende bogstav		0
8	German (de) Der scharlachrote Buchstabe		0
9	Greek (el) Το άλικο γράμμα		0
10	Persian (fa) داغ ننگ		0

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

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