Leading tone

Leading-tone - note a major seventh above the tonic, which typically resolves to a note one semitone higher or lower. Article “Leading tone” in English Wikipedia has 66.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 37 references and 13 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Leading tone”, its content was written by 65 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 371 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 257 times in English Wikipedia and cited 906 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #12684 in November 2002
• Global: #17406 in November 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #212061 in October 2014
• Global: #199582 in April 2020

There are 21 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) Leading tone		66.8363
2	Norwegian (no) Ledetone		26.2554
3	German (de) Leitton		26.1155
4	Finnish (fi) Johtosävel		25.1403
5	Polish (pl) Dźwięk prowadzący		22.5876
6	Persian (fa) محسوس (موسیقی)		22.1588
7	Russian (ru) Вводный тон		21.6816
8	Portuguese (pt) Sensível		20.5523
9	Japanese (ja) 導音		20.136
10	Czech (cs) Citlivý tón		18.4593

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Leading tone" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Leading tone		689 043
2	German (de) Leitton		175 686
3	French (fr) Sensible (musique)		141 958
4	Spanish (es) Sensible (música)		129 293
5	Italian (it) Sensibile		79 737
6	Russian (ru) Вводный тон		46 568
7	Japanese (ja) 導音		46 060
8	Dutch (nl) Leidtoon		36 325
9	Portuguese (pt) Sensível		34 481
10	Chinese (zh) 導音		27 136

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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 "Leading tone" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Leading tone		3 094
2	French (fr) Sensible (musique)		433
3	German (de) Leitton		363
4	Chinese (zh) 導音		193
5	Spanish (es) Sensible (música)		177
6	Japanese (ja) 導音		131
7	Italian (it) Sensibile		128
8	Russian (ru) Вводный тон		116
9	Portuguese (pt) Sensível		91
10	Dutch (nl) Leidtoon		80

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Leading tone		65
2	German (de) Leitton		57
3	French (fr) Sensible (musique)		37
4	Italian (it) Sensibile		37
5	Dutch (nl) Leidtoon		31
6	Norwegian (no) Ledetone		24
7	Hebrew (he) טון מוביל		17
8	Danish (da) Ledetone		14
9	Japanese (ja) 導音		14
10	Spanish (es) Sensible (música)		12

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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 "Leading tone" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) حساسة (موسيقى)		0
2	Catalan (ca) Sensible		0
3	Czech (cs) Citlivý tón		0
4	Danish (da) Ledetone		0
5	German (de) Leitton		0
6	English (en) Leading tone		0
7	Esperanto (eo) Strebotono		0
8	Spanish (es) Sensible (música)		0
9	Persian (fa) محسوس (موسیقی)		0
10	Finnish (fi) Johtosävel		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 "Leading tone" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Leading tone		257
2	French (fr) Sensible (musique)		102
3	German (de) Leitton		91
4	Chinese (zh) 導音		75
5	Italian (it) Sensibile		54
6	Persian (fa) محسوس (موسیقی)		50
7	Korean (ko) 이끎음		44
8	Portuguese (pt) Sensível		33
9	Japanese (ja) 導音		31
10	Russian (ru) Вводный тон		27

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic حساسة (موسيقى)
ca	Catalan Sensible
cs	Czech Citlivý tón
da	Danish Ledetone
de	German Leitton
en	English Leading tone
eo	Esperanto Strebotono
es	Spanish Sensible (música)
fa	Persian محسوس (موسیقی)
fi	Finnish Johtosävel
fr	French Sensible (musique)
he	Hebrew טון מוביל
it	Italian Sensibile
ja	Japanese 導音
ko	Korean 이끎음
nl	Dutch Leidtoon
no	Norwegian Ledetone
pl	Polish Dźwięk prowadzący
pt	Portuguese Sensível
ru	Russian Вводный тон
zh	Chinese 導音

Best Rank

English: #212061 10.2014

Global: #199582 04.2020

Best Rank

English: #12684 11.2002

Global: #17406 11.2002

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