Water chestnut

Eleocharis dulcis - grass-like sedge grown for its edible corms. This taxon is the 1994^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 634^th most popular taxon in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Water chestnut” 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.

Since the creation of article “Water chestnut”, its content was written by 7 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 560 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Eleocharis dulcis is on the 634^th place in local ranking of taxon in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 1994^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 7 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 409 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #2111 in February 2014
• Global: #20177 in September 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #3477 in January 2017
• Global: #43127 in December 2023

There are 31 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) Eleocharis dulcis		66.443
2	Indonesian (id) Purun tikus		47.1724
3	Malay (ms) Sengkuang cina		44.32
4	Arabic (ar) إيليوكاريس حلو		36.008
5	Esperanto (eo) Akvokaŝtano		35.4366
6	German (de) Wasserkastanie		35.4002
7	Czech (cs) Bahnička jedlá		32.8245
8	Polish (pl) Ponikło słodkie		30.5712
9	Chinese (zh) 荸荠		29.8326
10	Korean (ko) 남방개		27.6288

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Water chestnut" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Eleocharis dulcis		3 266 169
2	Chinese (zh) 荸荠		822 446
3	German (de) Wasserkastanie		440 465
4	French (fr) Châtaigne d'eau chinoise		239 616
5	Japanese (ja) シログワイ		125 965
6	Swedish (sv) Vattenkastanj		100 811
7	Dutch (nl) Chinese waterkastanje		74 356
8	Finnish (fi) Kastanjaluikka		70 214
9	Russian (ru) Болотница сладкая		68 965
10	Vietnamese (vi) Năn ngọt		61 095

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Water chestnut" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Eleocharis dulcis		13 124
2	Chinese (zh) 荸荠		4 698
3	German (de) Wasserkastanie		2 107
4	Japanese (ja) シログワイ		699
5	Russian (ru) Болотница сладкая		462
6	French (fr) Châtaigne d'eau chinoise		444
7	Dutch (nl) Chinese waterkastanje		400
8	Swedish (sv) Vattenkastanj		248
9	Spanish (es) Eleocharis dulcis		247
10	Polish (pl) Ponikło słodkie		218

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

Language versions of the article "Water chestnut" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Eleocharis dulcis		161
2	Chinese (zh) 荸荠		54
3	German (de) Wasserkastanie		48
4	Dutch (nl) Chinese waterkastanje		34
5	French (fr) Châtaigne d'eau chinoise		33
6	Vietnamese (vi) Năn ngọt		31
7	Swedish (sv) Vattenkastanj		24
8	Hindi (hi) चीनी सिंघाड़ा		19
9	Japanese (ja) シログワイ		18
10	Russian (ru) Болотница сладкая		16

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

Language versions of the article "Water chestnut" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) إيليوكاريس حلو		1
2	Bulgarian (bg) Китайски воден кестен		0
3	Czech (cs) Bahnička jedlá		0
4	Danish (da) Vandkastanje		0
5	German (de) Wasserkastanie		0
6	Greek (el) Κινέζικο νεροκάστανο		0
7	English (en) Eleocharis dulcis		0
8	Esperanto (eo) Akvokaŝtano		0
9	Spanish (es) Eleocharis dulcis		0
10	Persian (fa) شاه‌بلوط چینی آبی (گیاه)		0

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

Language versions of the article "Water chestnut" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Eleocharis dulcis		80
2	Chinese (zh) 荸荠		55
3	French (fr) Châtaigne d'eau chinoise		33
4	German (de) Wasserkastanie		25
5	Russian (ru) Болотница сладкая		20
6	Dutch (nl) Chinese waterkastanje		17
7	Italian (it) Eleocharis dulcis		16
8	Japanese (ja) シログワイ		16
9	Thai (th) แห้วทรงกระเทียม		15
10	Vietnamese (vi) Năn ngọt		13

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic إيليوكاريس حلو
bg	Bulgarian Китайски воден кестен
cs	Czech Bahnička jedlá
da	Danish Vandkastanje
de	German Wasserkastanie
el	Greek Κινέζικο νεροκάστανο
en	English Eleocharis dulcis
eo	Esperanto Akvokaŝtano
es	Spanish Eleocharis dulcis
fa	Persian شاه‌بلوط چینی آبی (گیاه)
fi	Finnish Kastanjaluikka
fr	French Châtaigne d'eau chinoise
hi	Hindi चीनी सिंघाड़ा
hu	Hungarian Vízigesztenye
id	Indonesian Purun tikus
it	Italian Eleocharis dulcis
ja	Japanese シログワイ
ko	Korean 남방개
ms	Malay Sengkuang cina
nl	Dutch Chinese waterkastanje
no	Norwegian Vannkastanje
pl	Polish Ponikło słodkie
pt	Portuguese Eleocharis dulcis
ru	Russian Болотница сладкая
simple	Simple English Water chestnut
sv	Swedish Vattenkastanj
th	Thai แห้วทรงกระเทียม
uk	Ukrainian Eleocharis dulcis
ur	Urdu سنگھاڑا
vi	Vietnamese Năn ngọt
zh	Chinese 荸荠

Best Rank

Simple English: #3477 01.2017

Global: #43127 12.2023

Best Rank

Simple English: #2111 02.2014

Global: #20177 09.2005

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