Transposition cipher

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Transposition cipher

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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 cipher" in English Wikipedia has 54 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 19 references and 23 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

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 "Transposition cipher" was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 5 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Transposition cipher", its content was written by 110 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 417 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 125 times in English Wikipedia and cited 710 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #5377 in April 2002
  • Global: #6269 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #69133 in December 2020
  • Global: #85380 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, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Transposition cipher
54.0353
2Malay (ms)
Sifer silang ganti
41.9366
3Spanish (es)
Cifrado por transposición
34.5277
4Russian (ru)
Перестановочный шифр
25.7729
5Italian (it)
Cifrario a trasposizione
20.465
6Serbian (sr)
Шифра транспозиције
17.9838
7Chinese (zh)
置换式密码
16.272
8Slovak (sk)
Transpozícia (kryptológia)
13.8531
9Czech (cs)
Transpoziční šifra
12.9922
10Catalan (ca)
Xifratge per transposició
11.7634
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Transposition cipher" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Transposition cipher
1 830 554
2Russian (ru)
Перестановочный шифр
252 819
3German (de)
Transposition (Kryptographie)
175 472
4Spanish (es)
Cifrado por transposición
128 260
5Polish (pl)
Szyfr przestawieniowy
121 318
6Japanese (ja)
転置式暗号
95 255
7French (fr)
Chiffrement par transposition
81 324
8Italian (it)
Cifrario a trasposizione
76 134
9Portuguese (pt)
Cifra de transposição
53 510
10Czech (cs)
Transpoziční šifra
36 373
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Transposition cipher" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Transposition cipher
4 986
2Russian (ru)
Перестановочный шифр
618
3German (de)
Transposition (Kryptographie)
295
4French (fr)
Chiffrement par transposition
291
5Spanish (es)
Cifrado por transposición
284
6Chinese (zh)
置换式密码
212
7Japanese (ja)
転置式暗号
191
8Italian (it)
Cifrario a trasposizione
181
9Polish (pl)
Szyfr przestawieniowy
169
10Portuguese (pt)
Cifra de transposição
102
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Transposition cipher" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Transposition cipher
110
2German (de)
Transposition (Kryptographie)
53
3French (fr)
Chiffrement par transposition
33
4Italian (it)
Cifrario a trasposizione
27
5Russian (ru)
Перестановочный шифр
22
6Dutch (nl)
Dubbele-transpositiecijfer
21
7Hungarian (hu)
Transzpozíció (kriptográfia)
20
8Polish (pl)
Szyfr przestawieniowy
18
9Czech (cs)
Transpoziční šifra
14
10Japanese (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.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Transposition cipher" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Arabic (ar)
تعمية بالمناقلة
2
2English (en)
Transposition cipher
1
3Persian (fa)
رمزنگاری جابه‌جایی
1
4Finnish (fi)
Transpositiosalaus
1
5Catalan (ca)
Xifratge per transposició
0
6Czech (cs)
Transpoziční šifra
0
7German (de)
Transposition (Kryptographie)
0
8Spanish (es)
Cifrado por transposición
0
9French (fr)
Chiffrement par transposition
0
10Hebrew (he)
צופן שחלוף
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Transposition cipher" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1Hebrew (he)
צופן שחלוף
203
2English (en)
Transposition cipher
125
3French (fr)
Chiffrement par transposition
38
4German (de)
Transposition (Kryptographie)
36
5Chinese (zh)
置换式密码
36
6Korean (ko)
전치 암호
35
7Hungarian (hu)
Transzpozíció (kriptográfia)
29
8Dutch (nl)
Dubbele-transpositiecijfer
25
9Arabic (ar)
تعمية بالمناقلة
20
10Spanish (es)
Cifrado por transposición
20
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
تعمية بالمناقلة
caCatalan
Xifratge per transposició
csCzech
Transpoziční šifra
deGerman
Transposition (Kryptographie)
enEnglish
Transposition cipher
esSpanish
Cifrado por transposición
faPersian
رمزنگاری جابه‌جایی
fiFinnish
Transpositiosalaus
frFrench
Chiffrement par transposition
heHebrew
צופן שחלוף
huHungarian
Transzpozíció (kriptográfia)
itItalian
Cifrario a trasposizione
jaJapanese
転置式暗号
kaGeorgian
გადანაცვლებადი შიფრი
koKorean
전치 암호
msMalay
Sifer silang ganti
nlDutch
Dubbele-transpositiecijfer
plPolish
Szyfr przestawieniowy
ptPortuguese
Cifra de transposição
roRomanian
Cifrul transpoziției
ruRussian
Перестановочный шифр
skSlovak
Transpozícia (kryptológia)
srSerbian
Шифра транспозиције
ukUkrainian
Перестановочний шифр
zhChinese
置换式密码

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#69133
12.2020
Global:
#85380
12.2020

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#5377
04.2002
Global:
#6269
04.2002

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Transposition cipher from Wikipedia articles about Kryptos, Substitution cipher, Cipher, Scytale and Rail fence cipher. Whereas reading the article about Transposition cipher people most often go to Wikipedia articles on ADFGVX cipher, Substitution cipher, Rail fence cipher, VIC cipher and Scytale.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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