Angle of repose

Angle of repose - (of a granular material) steepest angle of descent or dip relative to the horizontal plane to which a material can be piled without slumping. At this angle, the material on the slope face is on the verge of sliding. Article "Angle of repose" in English Wikipedia has 51.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 11 references and 12 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that language version.

In June 2025 the article "Angle of repose" was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Angle of repose", its content was written by 133 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 472 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 188 times in English Wikipedia and cited 586 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #16609 in December 2013
• Global: #32106 in April 2017

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #17904 in October 2013
• Global: #30543 in October 2013

There are 26 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) Angle of repose		51.1364
2	Portuguese (pt) Ângulo de repouso		38.5992
3	Russian (ru) Угол естественного откоса		28.8468
4	Czech (cs) Sypný úhel		28.7987
5	Indonesian (id) Sudut tenang		27.1167
6	Arabic (ar) زاوية الاسترخاء		25.7401
7	German (de) Reibungswinkel		23.9474
8	Spanish (es) Ángulo de rozamiento interno		23.6487
9	Japanese (ja) 安息角		23.0535
10	French (fr) Angle de talus naturel		22.1684

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Angle of repose" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Angle of repose		2 321 238
2	Spanish (es) Ángulo de rozamiento interno		508 757
3	Japanese (ja) 安息角		398 512
4	German (de) Reibungswinkel		390 065
5	Russian (ru) Угол естественного откоса		181 710
6	Polish (pl) Kąt tarcia wewnętrznego		150 092
7	Italian (it) Angolo di resistenza al taglio		143 813
8	French (fr) Angle de talus naturel		140 263
9	Chinese (zh) 休止角		55 132
10	Dutch (nl) Hoek van inwendige wrijving		46 641

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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 "Angle of repose" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Angle of repose		4 202
2	Japanese (ja) 安息角		975
3	German (de) Reibungswinkel		855
4	Spanish (es) Ángulo de rozamiento interno		491
5	Russian (ru) Угол естественного откоса		394
6	Polish (pl) Kąt tarcia wewnętrznego		254
7	Chinese (zh) 休止角		227
8	Italian (it) Angolo di resistenza al taglio		220
9	Korean (ko) 안식각		199
10	French (fr) Angle de talus naturel		195

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Angle of repose		133
2	German (de) Reibungswinkel		70
3	French (fr) Angle de talus naturel		36
4	Spanish (es) Ángulo de rozamiento interno		27
5	Russian (ru) Угол естественного откоса		25
6	Japanese (ja) 安息角		24
7	Dutch (nl) Hoek van inwendige wrijving		21
8	Italian (it) Angolo di resistenza al taglio		17
9	Norwegian (no) Friksjonsvinkel		16
10	Polish (pl) Kąt tarcia wewnętrznego		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 "Angle of repose" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Angle of repose		2
2	Indonesian (id) Sudut tenang		2
3	Arabic (ar) زاوية الاسترخاء		0
4	Catalan (ca) Angle de fregament intern		0
5	Czech (cs) Sypný úhel		0
6	Danish (da) Stablingsvinkel		0
7	German (de) Reibungswinkel		0
8	Spanish (es) Ángulo de rozamiento interno		0
9	Persian (fa) زاویه شیب طبیعی		0
10	Finnish (fi) Luonnollinen kaatumiskulma		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 "Angle of repose" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Angle of repose		188
2	Arabic (ar) زاوية الاسترخاء		57
3	Indonesian (id) Sudut tenang		53
4	German (de) Reibungswinkel		50
5	French (fr) Angle de talus naturel		41
6	Russian (ru) Угол естественного откоса		30
7	Spanish (es) Ángulo de rozamiento interno		29
8	Chinese (zh) 休止角		29
9	Polish (pl) Kąt tarcia wewnętrznego		15
10	Dutch (nl) Hoek van inwendige wrijving		12

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic زاوية الاسترخاء
ca	Catalan Angle de fregament intern
cs	Czech Sypný úhel
da	Danish Stablingsvinkel
de	German Reibungswinkel
en	English Angle of repose
es	Spanish Ángulo de rozamiento interno
fa	Persian زاویه شیب طبیعی
fi	Finnish Luonnollinen kaatumiskulma
fr	French Angle de talus naturel
gl	Galician Ángulo de rozamento interno
he	Hebrew זווית השיפוע הטבעי
id	Indonesian Sudut tenang
it	Italian Angolo di resistenza al taglio
ja	Japanese 安息角
ko	Korean 안식각
nl	Dutch Hoek van inwendige wrijving
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Friksjonsvinkel
no	Norwegian Friksjonsvinkel
pl	Polish Kąt tarcia wewnętrznego
pt	Portuguese Ângulo de repouso
ru	Russian Угол естественного откоса
sr	Serbian Ugao mirovanja
tr	Turkish Yığılma açısı
uk	Ukrainian Кут природного укосу
zh	Chinese 休止角

Best Rank

English: #17904 10.2013

Global: #30543 10.2013

Best Rank

English: #16609 12.2013

Global: #32106 04.2017

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