Approximant consonant

Quality:

Approximant consonant - speech sound that involves articulators approaching each other but not narrowly enough to create turbulent airflow. Article “Approximant consonant” in Simple English Wikipedia has 16.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 5 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Approximant consonant”, its content was written by 6 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 611 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 305 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 12450 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #4122 in September 2012
• Global: #381 in January 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1804 in October 2015
• Global: #83506 in April 2010

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, 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) Approximant		54.2916
2	German (de) Approximant		35.5394
3	Greek (el) Προσεγγιστικά σύμφωνα		26.3106
4	Swedish (sv) Approximant		26.2274
5	Indonesian (id) Konsonan hampiran		24.097
6	Tamil (ta) உயிர்ப்போலி		23.8504
7	Lithuanian (lt) Aproksimantai		22.8113
8	Arabic (ar) شبه صامت		21.9404
9	Urdu (ur) قریبی مصمتے		19.4704
10	Vietnamese (vi) Âm tiếp cận		17.5819

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Approximant		1 409 670
2	German (de) Approximant		192 384
3	Italian (it) Consonante approssimante		167 452
4	Spanish (es) Consonante aproximante		166 746
5	French (fr) Consonne spirante		131 409
6	Russian (ru) Аппроксиманты		106 084
7	Japanese (ja) 接近音		87 718
8	Chinese (zh) 近音		86 722
9	Simple English (simple) Approximant consonant		73 249
10	Portuguese (pt) Consoante aproximante		48 590

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) Approximant		5 078
2	Russian (ru) Аппроксиманты		398
3	Japanese (ja) 接近音		395
4	Chinese (zh) 近音		340
5	Spanish (es) Consonante aproximante		339
6	Italian (it) Consonante approssimante		327
7	French (fr) Consonne spirante		282
8	German (de) Approximant		247
9	Simple English (simple) Approximant consonant		210
10	Finnish (fi) Approksimantti		110

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Approximant		132
2	German (de) Approximant		58
3	French (fr) Consonne spirante		48
4	Italian (it) Consonante approssimante		40
5	Russian (ru) Аппроксиманты		34
6	Hebrew (he) עיצורים מקורבים		28
7	Norwegian (no) Approksimanter		26
8	Finnish (fi) Approksimantti		23
9	Chinese (zh) 近音		20
10	Spanish (es) Consonante aproximante		19

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	Arabic (ar) شبه صامت		0
2	Bulgarian (bg) Приблизителна съгласна		0
3	Catalan (ca) Consonant aproximant		0
4	Czech (cs) Aproximantní souhláska		0
5	Danish (da) Approksimant		0
6	German (de) Approximant		0
7	Greek (el) Προσεγγιστικά σύμφωνα		0
8	English (en) Approximant		0
9	Esperanto (eo) Alproksimanto		0
10	Spanish (es) Consonante aproximante		0

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

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