Sound barrier

Quality:

Sound barrier - obstacle to achieving supersonic speed. Article “Sound barrier” in English Wikipedia has 74.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 56 references and 15 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.

In June 2026 the article “Sound barrier” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Sound barrier”, its content was written by 371 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1240 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 312 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1626 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #590 in October 2012
• Global: #748 in October 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #846 in October 2012
• Global: #363 in October 2012

There are 35 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) Sound barrier		74.0865
2	Malay (ms) Batasan bunyi		60.0069
3	Romanian (ro) Bariera sunetului		46.287
4	Estonian (et) Helibarjäär		41.8742
5	French (fr) Mur du son		29.4491
6	Tamil (ta) ஒலித்தடை		28.4746
7	Hebrew (he) מחסום הקול		25.6212
8	Turkish (tr) Ses duvarı		24.8924
9	Esperanto (eo) Sonmuro		23.5667
10	Russian (ru) Звуковой барьер		23.2417

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sound barrier		4 948 556
2	French (fr) Mur du son		2 645 618
3	Spanish (es) Barrera del sonido		1 501 782
4	Russian (ru) Звуковой барьер		1 280 443
5	Italian (it) Muro del suono		1 000 332
6	Japanese (ja) 音の壁		647 480
7	Polish (pl) Bariera dźwięku		600 878
8	Dutch (nl) Geluidsbarrière		516 444
9	Portuguese (pt) Barreira do som		516 034
10	Persian (fa) دیوار صوتی		389 018

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) Sound barrier		6 223
2	French (fr) Mur du son		2 385
3	Persian (fa) دیوار صوتی		1 289
4	Russian (ru) Звуковой барьер		1 057
5	Spanish (es) Barrera del sonido		750
6	Japanese (ja) 音の壁		556
7	Polish (pl) Bariera dźwięku		494
8	Italian (it) Muro del suono		446
9	Dutch (nl) Geluidsbarrière		406
10	Chinese (zh) 音障		386

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sound barrier		371
2	French (fr) Mur du son		179
3	Dutch (nl) Geluidsbarrière		91
4	Russian (ru) Звуковой барьер		61
5	Spanish (es) Barrera del sonido		58
6	Italian (it) Muro del suono		53
7	Swedish (sv) Ljudvallen		47
8	Persian (fa) دیوار صوتی		43
9	Portuguese (pt) Barreira do som		43
10	Polish (pl) Bariera dźwięku		36

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	English (en) Sound barrier		2
2	French (fr) Mur du son		1
3	Indonesian (id) Hambatan suara		1
4	Arabic (ar) جدار الصوت		0
5	Belarusian (be) Гукавы бар’ер		0
6	Catalan (ca) Barrera del so		0
7	Danish (da) Lydmur		0
8	Esperanto (eo) Sonmuro		0
9	Spanish (es) Barrera del sonido		0
10	Estonian (et) Helibarjäär		0

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

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