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160 answers are accepted for “Name a writing system”. Maore Latin Alphabet is the rarest writing system in this ranking, with 4 monthly Wikipedia views (rarity 1.000, Legendary). Maore Arabic Alphabet is the second-rarest with 8 monthly Wikipedia views, 2.00× the figure for Maore Latin Alphabet. Cyrillic script is the most common writing system in this ranking, with 632,752 monthly Wikipedia views, 158,188× the figure for the rarest. Combined monthly Wikipedia views across the 160 answers: 5,392,098. Maore Latin Alphabet is under 0.1% of that total. 32 answers are Epic or Legendary: Maore Latin Alphabet (Legendary), Maore Arabic Alphabet (Legendary), Aragonese writing systems (Legendary), and 29 more.
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Cyrillic script
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632,752 monthly Wikipedia views
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Rarity 0.000
Monthly English Wikipedia pageviews. Source: Wikidata + Wikipedia pageviews (2026-10).
Ranked answers 160 answers to “Name a writing system”, rarest first. A rarity of 1 is the rarest answer in this
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Rank Answer Tier Rarity Monthly Wikipedia views 1 Maore Latin Alphabet on Wikipedia Legendary 1.000 4 2 Maore Arabic Alphabet on Wikipedia Legendary 0.994 8 3 Aragonese writing systems on Wikipedia Legendary 0.987 15 4 Early Dynastic cuneiform on Wikipedia Legendary 0.981 23 5 ISO 15924:Hanb on Wikipedia Legendary 0.975 32 6 ISO 15924:Hntl on Wikipedia Legendary 0.969 33 7 Informal Roman Urdu on Wikipedia Legendary 0.962 42 8 Litumol script on Wikipedia Legendary 0.956 248 9 Oscan alphabet on Wikipedia Legendary 0.950 255 10 Medew Netcher on Wikipedia Legendary 0.943 294 11 Hàn-lô on Wikipedia Legendary 0.937 350 12 Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform on Wikipedia Legendary 0.931 397 13 Ancient Kamarupi script on Wikipedia Epic 0.925 445 14 Tajik alphabets on Wikipedia Epic 0.918 573 15 Hebrew square script on Wikipedia Epic 0.912 585 16 Mundi script on Wikipedia Epic 0.906 646 17 Yaryzhka on Wikipedia Epic 0.899 998 18 World Orthography on Wikipedia Epic 0.893 1,014 19 Pre-reform orthography on Wikipedia Epic 0.887 1,114 20 Komering script on Wikipedia Epic 0.881 1,142 21 Karshoni on Wikipedia Epic 0.874 1,202 22 Dham script on Wikipedia Epic 0.868 1,246 23 Meyer–Wempe on Wikipedia Epic 0.862 1,287 24 Chu script on Wikipedia Epic 0.855 1,316 25 Fakoo on Wikipedia Epic 0.849 1,334 26 Langdi on Wikipedia Epic 0.843 1,339 27 Sidetic script on Wikipedia Epic 0.836 1,348 28 Anga Lipi on Wikipedia Epic 0.830 1,460 29 Mari alphabet on Wikipedia Epic 0.824 1,461 30 Tamyig on Wikipedia Epic 0.818 1,513 31 Dobrujan Tatar alphabet on Wikipedia Epic 0.811 1,586 32 Ogan script on Wikipedia Epic 0.805 1,844 33 Bonda script on Wikipedia Rare 0.799 1,883 34 Thai spelling reform of 1942 on Wikipedia Rare 0.792 1,904 35 Koleluttu on Wikipedia Rare 0.786 2,076 36 Massachusett writing systems on Wikipedia Rare 0.780 2,188 37 Karani script on Wikipedia Rare 0.774 2,203 38 Hyangch'al on Wikipedia Rare 0.767 2,217 39 Leke script on Wikipedia Rare 0.761 2,220 40 Sindhi alphabet on Wikipedia Rare 0.755 2,350 41 Incung script on Wikipedia Rare 0.748 2,418 42 Teochew Romanization on Wikipedia Rare 0.742 2,471 43 Gbékoun script on Wikipedia Rare 0.736 2,584 44 Assamese script on Wikipedia Rare 0.730 2,707 45 Dhofari script on Wikipedia Rare 0.723 2,745 46 Skoropis on Wikipedia Rare 0.717 2,762 47 Pushkarasari script on Wikipedia Rare 0.711 3,011 48 Ukrainian orthography of 2019 on Wikipedia Rare 0.704 3,109 49 Lampung script on Wikipedia Rare 0.695 3,170 50 Todhri script on Wikipedia Rare 0.695 3,170 51 Gondi writing on Wikipedia Rare 0.686 3,217 52 Testerian on Wikipedia Rare 0.679 3,271 53 Si5s on Wikipedia Rare 0.673 3,388 54 Malayanma on Wikipedia Rare 0.667 3,625 55 Sasak script on Wikipedia Rare 0.660 3,652 56 Taiwanese Hangul on Wikipedia Rare 0.654 3,743 57 Ersu Shaba script on Wikipedia Rare 0.648 3,953 58 Nwagu Aneke script on Wikipedia Rare 0.642 4,008 59 Buda script on Wikipedia Rare 0.635 4,194 60 Hurûf-ı munfasıla on Wikipedia Rare 0.629 4,209 61 Alifuru script on Wikipedia Rare 0.623 4,240 62 Standard Form of National Characters on Wikipedia Rare 0.616 4,429 63 Khom script on Wikipedia Rare 0.610 4,549 64 Naxi script on Wikipedia Rare 0.604 4,551 65 Greek Aljamiado on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.597 4,819 66 Shankhalipi on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.591 4,866 67 Ariyaka script on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.585 4,915 68 Gadabuursi Somali Script on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.579 4,952 69 Dunging script on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.572 5,071 70 ASLwrite on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.566 5,725 71 Kugyŏl on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.560 5,764 72 Zaghawa script on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.553 5,788 73 Mon alphabet on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.547 5,884 74 Singapore Chinese characters on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.541 5,983 75 Shan alphabet on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.535 6,613 76 Garshuni on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.528 6,949 77 Hismaic on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.522 7,052 78 Ba–Shu scripts on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.516 7,651 79 Great Lakes Algonquian syllabics on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.509 7,683 80 Tai Noi script on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.503 7,979 81 Okinawan scripts on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.497 8,024 82 Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.491 8,031 83 Elbasan script on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.484 8,052 84 Pazend on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.478 8,253 85 Makasar script on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.472 8,259 86 Taiwanese Phonetic Symbols on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.465 8,950 87 Neo-Tifinagh on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.459 10,259 88 Kulitan on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.453 10,260 89 Armeno-Turkish alphabet on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.447 10,515 90 Taiwanese kana on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.440 10,543 91 Tâi-uân Lô-má-jī Phing-im Hong-àn on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.434 10,770 92 Celtiberian script on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.428 11,582 93 Iberian scripts on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.421 11,627 94 Oduduwa script on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.415 11,924 95 Book Pahlavi on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.409 12,320 96 Malachim on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.403 12,355 97 Swahili Ajami on Wikipedia Familiar 0.396 12,705 98 Tai Viet script on Wikipedia Familiar 0.390 12,869 99 Rasm on Wikipedia Familiar 0.384 13,389 100 Obsolete Hangul jamo on Wikipedia Familiar 0.377 13,891 101 Paleohispanic scripts on Wikipedia Familiar 0.371 14,033 102 Ukrainian Latin alphabet on Wikipedia Familiar 0.365 14,360 103 Sukhothai script on Wikipedia Familiar 0.358 14,605 104 Perso-Arabic script on Wikipedia Familiar 0.352 15,759 105 Idu script on Wikipedia Familiar 0.346 16,035 106 Dongba symbols on Wikipedia Familiar 0.340 17,432 107 Zapotec script on Wikipedia Familiar 0.333 18,421 108 Batak script on Wikipedia Familiar 0.327 19,314 109 Traditional Chinese on Wikipedia Familiar 0.321 19,584 110 Simplified Chinese on Wikipedia Familiar 0.314 19,983 111 Second round of simplified Chinese characters on Wikipedia Familiar 0.308 20,543 112 Khitan small script on Wikipedia Familiar 0.302 20,733 113 Mon–Burmese script on Wikipedia Familiar 0.296 21,486 114 Pahawh Hmong on Wikipedia Familiar 0.289 22,627 115 Jurchen script on Wikipedia Familiar 0.283 22,951 116 Pegon script on Wikipedia Familiar 0.277 23,302 117 Khitan large script on Wikipedia Familiar 0.270 23,388 118 Turkmen alphabet on Wikipedia Familiar 0.264 23,766 119 Written Cantonese on Wikipedia Familiar 0.258 24,301 120 Arebica on Wikipedia Familiar 0.252 25,005 121 Ojibwe writing systems on Wikipedia Familiar 0.245 25,517 122 Chinese bronze inscriptions on Wikipedia Familiar 0.239 27,419 123 Libyco-Berber alphabet on Wikipedia Familiar 0.233 29,390 124 Linear Elamite on Wikipedia Familiar 0.226 29,401 125 Cursive hieroglyphs on Wikipedia Familiar 0.220 29,961 126 Small seal script on Wikipedia Familiar 0.214 30,862 127 Proto-Elamite script on Wikipedia Familiar 0.208 31,097 128 Ol Chiki script on Wikipedia Familiar 0.201 31,155 129 CJK characters on Wikipedia Common 0.195 31,910 130 Balinese script on Wikipedia Common 0.189 32,147 131 Cursive Hebrew on Wikipedia Common 0.182 32,309 132 Kyūjitai on Wikipedia Common 0.176 33,246 133 Wylie transliteration on Wikipedia Common 0.170 34,282 134 Old Italic scripts on Wikipedia Common 0.164 34,621 135 Latin script in Unicode on Wikipedia Common 0.157 37,816 136 Lao script on Wikipedia Common 0.151 38,306 137 Shahmukhi on Wikipedia Common 0.145 38,321 138 Kawi script on Wikipedia Common 0.138 41,021 139 Shinjitai on Wikipedia Common 0.132 45,247 140 Nüshu on Wikipedia Common 0.126 46,515 141 Avestan alphabet on Wikipedia Common 0.119 52,090 142 International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration on Wikipedia Common 0.113 55,398 143 Inuktitut syllabics on Wikipedia Common 0.107 59,469 144 Pe̍h-ōe-jī on Wikipedia Common 0.101 63,366 145 Etruscan alphabet on Wikipedia Common 0.094 64,573 146 Kazakh alphabets on Wikipedia Common 0.088 72,826 147 English orthography on Wikipedia Common 0.082 76,993 148 Pahlavi scripts on Wikipedia Common 0.075 84,428 149 Jawi script on Wikipedia Common 0.069 89,639 150 Hieratic on Wikipedia Common 0.063 94,115 151 Syriac alphabet on Wikipedia Common 0.057 111,093 152 Oracle bone script on Wikipedia Common 0.050 138,547 153 Glagolitic script on Wikipedia Common 0.044 148,059 154 Japanese writing system on Wikipedia Common 0.038 209,168 155 Hanja on Wikipedia Common 0.031 237,998 156 Latin script on Wikipedia Common 0.025 278,114 157 Chinese characters on Wikipedia Common 0.019 377,394 158 Cuneiform on Wikipedia Common 0.013 486,049 159 Egyptian hieroglyphs on Wikipedia Common 0.006 544,213 160 Cyrillic script on Wikipedia Common 0.000 632,752
FAQ What is the rarest writing system? Maore Latin Alphabet is the rarest writing system in this ranking, with 4 monthly Wikipedia views (rarity 1.000, Legendary).
How many writing systems are there? There are 160 writing systems in this ranking, from Maore Latin Alphabet (rarest) to Cyrillic script (most common).
What is the most common writing system? Cyrillic script is the most common writing system in this ranking, with 632,752 monthly Wikipedia views (Common).
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Sources Recorded source: Wikidata + Wikipedia pageviews (2026-10). The answer list is compiled from Wikidata (CC0), and the view counts are monthly English Wikipedia pageviews. Rarity is the percentile of the popularity figure inside this prompt: 1 is the rarest and 0 is the most common. Linked names open the English Wikipedia article stored on that answer.