Pawn shop

Quality:

Pawnbroker - individual or business that offers loans to people, with items of personal property used as collateral. Article “Pawn shop” in Simple English Wikipedia has 15.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

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

Since the creation of article “Pawn shop”, its content was written by 20 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1119 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 10 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2959 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #861 in December 2023
• Global: #1093 in October 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #222 in August 2023
• Global: #31353 in July 2010

There are 37 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	Chinese (zh) 典當業		66.6535
2	English (en) Pawnbroker		47.6779
3	Japanese (ja) 質屋		42.0497
4	German (de) Pfandleiher		35.7511
5	Russian (ru) Ломбард		32.7769
6	Vietnamese (vi) Tiệm cầm đồ		31.0901
7	Swedish (sv) Pantbank		30.8627
8	Greek (el) Ενεχυροδανειστήριο		28.8978
9	Estonian (et) Pandimaja		27.3125
10	Catalan (ca) Casa d'empenyorament		27.2946

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Pawnbroker		3 451 330
2	Japanese (ja) 質屋		654 132
3	Russian (ru) Ломбард		482 359
4	Chinese (zh) 典當業		321 663
5	German (de) Pfandleiher		294 328
6	Simple English (simple) Pawn shop		261 393
7	French (fr) Prêt sur gage		246 379
8	Indonesian (id) Rumah gadai		171 257
9	Spanish (es) Casa de empeños		146 499
10	Polish (pl) Lombard (instytucja)		133 472

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) Pawnbroker		8 930
2	Simple English (simple) Pawn shop		1 901
3	Chinese (zh) 典當業		1 787
4	Russian (ru) Ломбард		1 236
5	Japanese (ja) 質屋		1 155
6	French (fr) Prêt sur gage		838
7	German (de) Pfandleiher		575
8	Spanish (es) Casa de empeños		539
9	Polish (pl) Lombard (instytucja)		503
10	Italian (it) Banco dei pegni		491

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Pawnbroker		353
2	Chinese (zh) 典當業		110
3	German (de) Pfandleiher		85
4	Russian (ru) Ломбард		71
5	Japanese (ja) 質屋		67
6	French (fr) Prêt sur gage		53
7	Dutch (nl) Lommerd		46
8	Swedish (sv) Pantbank		29
9	Polish (pl) Lombard (instytucja)		27
10	Ukrainian (uk) Ломбард		27

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	French (fr) Prêt sur gage		8
2	English (en) Pawnbroker		4
3	Arabic (ar) مرتهن		1
4	Bulgarian (bg) Заложна къща		1
5	Esperanto (eo) Lombardejo		1
6	Estonian (et) Pandimaja		1
7	Turkish (tr) Rehinci		1
8	Belarusian (be) Ламбард		0
9	Catalan (ca) Casa d'empenyorament		0
10	Czech (cs) Zastavárna		0

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

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