Transposition (Kryptographie)

Transposition cipher - method of encryption by which the positions held by units of plaintext (which are commonly characters or groups of characters) are shifted according to a regular system, so that the ciphertext constitutes a permutation of the plaintext. Article “Transposition (Kryptographie)” in German Wikipedia has 10.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 1 references and 5 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (German) language version.

Since the creation of article “Transposition (Kryptographie)”, its content was written by 54 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 429 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 36 times in German Wikipedia and cited 673 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #7684 in October 2024
• Global: #6276 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #77559 in March 2009
• Global: #85403 in December 2020

There are 25 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) Transposition cipher		54.4168
2	Malay (ms) Sifer silang ganti		43.3068
3	Spanish (es) Cifrado por transposición		34.1489
4	Russian (ru) Перестановочный шифр		25.8131
5	Italian (it) Cifrario a trasposizione		20.4625
6	Serbian (sr) Шифра транспозиције		17.9318
7	Chinese (zh) 置换式密码		16.2989
8	Slovak (sk) Transpozícia (kryptológia)		13.6875
9	Czech (cs) Transpoziční šifra		12.3047
10	Catalan (ca) Xifratge per transposició		11.8166

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Transposition (Kryptographie)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Transposition cipher		1 875 796
2	Russian (ru) Перестановочный шифр		265 447
3	German (de) Transposition (Kryptographie)		179 316
4	Spanish (es) Cifrado por transposición		130 717
5	Polish (pl) Szyfr przestawieniowy		124 111
6	Japanese (ja) 転置式暗号		97 632
7	French (fr) Chiffrement par transposition		84 911
8	Italian (it) Cifrario a trasposizione		78 375
9	Portuguese (pt) Cifra de transposição		54 644
10	Czech (cs) Transpoziční šifra		38 167

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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 "Transposition (Kryptographie)" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Transposition cipher		2 724
2	Russian (ru) Перестановочный шифр		308
3	German (de) Transposition (Kryptographie)		274
4	French (fr) Chiffrement par transposition		216
5	Chinese (zh) 置换式密码		174
6	Japanese (ja) 転置式暗号		172
7	Polish (pl) Szyfr przestawieniowy		125
8	Spanish (es) Cifrado por transposición		119
9	Italian (it) Cifrario a trasposizione		111
10	Portuguese (pt) Cifra de transposição		77

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Transposition cipher		114
2	German (de) Transposition (Kryptographie)		54
3	French (fr) Chiffrement par transposition		35
4	Italian (it) Cifrario a trasposizione		28
5	Russian (ru) Перестановочный шифр		23
6	Dutch (nl) Dubbele-transpositiecijfer		21
7	Hungarian (hu) Transzpozíció (kriptográfia)		20
8	Polish (pl) Szyfr przestawieniowy		19
9	Czech (cs) Transpoziční šifra		14
10	Japanese (ja) 転置式暗号		13

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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 "Transposition (Kryptographie)" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) تعمية بالمناقلة		1
2	Catalan (ca) Xifratge per transposició		0
3	Czech (cs) Transpoziční šifra		0
4	German (de) Transposition (Kryptographie)		0
5	English (en) Transposition cipher		0
6	Spanish (es) Cifrado por transposición		0
7	Persian (fa) رمزنگاری جابه‌جایی		0
8	Finnish (fi) Transpositiosalaus		0
9	French (fr) Chiffrement par transposition		0
10	Hebrew (he) צופן שחלוף		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 "Transposition (Kryptographie)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Hebrew (he) צופן שחלוף		200
2	English (en) Transposition cipher		116
3	German (de) Transposition (Kryptographie)		36
4	French (fr) Chiffrement par transposition		35
5	Chinese (zh) 置换式密码		35
6	Hungarian (hu) Transzpozíció (kriptográfia)		26
7	Dutch (nl) Dubbele-transpositiecijfer		25
8	Arabic (ar) تعمية بالمناقلة		20
9	Spanish (es) Cifrado por transposición		20
10	Japanese (ja) 転置式暗号		20

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic تعمية بالمناقلة
ca	Catalan Xifratge per transposició
cs	Czech Transpoziční šifra
de	German Transposition (Kryptographie)
en	English Transposition cipher
es	Spanish Cifrado por transposición
fa	Persian رمزنگاری جابه‌جایی
fi	Finnish Transpositiosalaus
fr	French Chiffrement par transposition
he	Hebrew צופן שחלוף
hu	Hungarian Transzpozíció (kriptográfia)
it	Italian Cifrario a trasposizione
ja	Japanese 転置式暗号
ka	Georgian გადანაცვლებადი შიფრი
ko	Korean 전치 암호
ms	Malay Sifer silang ganti
nl	Dutch Dubbele-transpositiecijfer
pl	Polish Szyfr przestawieniowy
pt	Portuguese Cifra de transposição
ro	Romanian Cifrul transpoziției
ru	Russian Перестановочный шифр
sk	Slovak Transpozícia (kryptológia)
sr	Serbian Шифра транспозиције
uk	Ukrainian Перестановочний шифр
zh	Chinese 置换式密码

Best Rank

German: #77559 03.2009

Global: #85403 12.2020

Best Rank

German: #7684 10.2024

Global: #6276 04.2002

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