Lateral consonant

simple

WikiRank.net
ver. 1.6.2

Lateral consonant

Quality:

Lateral consonant - l-like consonant in which the airstream proceeds along the sides of the tongue, but it is blocked by the tongue from going through the middle of the mouth. Article “Lateral consonant” in Simple English Wikipedia has 0.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

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 “Lateral consonant”, its content was written by 1 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 483 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 295 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 9784 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #14151 in August 2022
  • Global: #534 in January 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #6913 in October 2023
  • Global: #95987 in January 2015

There are 33 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)
Lateral consonant
44.3951
2Kazakh (kk)
Бүйір дауыссыз
21.2727
3Swedish (sv)
Lateral
15.3119
4Persian (fa)
کناری (آواشناسی)
14.0853
5Spanish (es)
Consonante lateral
13.4683
6Estonian (et)
Lateraal
13.325
7Catalan (ca)
Consonant lateral
12.7241
8Japanese (ja)
側面音
12.4695
9Malay (ms)
Konsonan sisian
12.3741
10Urdu (ur)
پہلوئی مصمتے
12.3589
More...

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 "Lateral consonant" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Lateral consonant
1 030 411
2German (de)
Lateral (Phonetik)
175 364
3Swedish (sv)
Lateral
130 021
4Japanese (ja)
側面音
104 605
5Spanish (es)
Consonante lateral
100 216
6Italian (it)
Consonante laterale
91 104
7Chinese (zh)
边音
72 889
8Russian (ru)
Боковые согласные
67 469
9Polish (pl)
Spółgłoska boczna
65 299
10Danish (da)
Lateral
65 183
More...

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 "Lateral consonant" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Lateral consonant
3 191
2Chinese (zh)
边音
399
3Japanese (ja)
側面音
358
4Russian (ru)
Боковые согласные
276
5German (de)
Lateral (Phonetik)
275
6Korean (ko)
설측음
148
7Italian (it)
Consonante laterale
145
8French (fr)
Consonne latérale
143
9Spanish (es)
Consonante lateral
135
10Swedish (sv)
Lateral
87
More...

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

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Lateral consonant" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Lateral consonant
125
2German (de)
Lateral (Phonetik)
35
3French (fr)
Consonne latérale
35
4Italian (it)
Consonante laterale
27
5Hebrew (he)
עיצורים צידיים
22
6Norwegian (no)
Lateraler
20
7Danish (da)
Lateral
19
8Japanese (ja)
側面音
19
9Russian (ru)
Боковые согласные
18
10Swedish (sv)
Lateral
18
More...

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 "Lateral consonant" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Arabic (ar)
الحروف الساكنة
0
2Bulgarian (bg)
Странична съгласна
0
3Catalan (ca)
Consonant lateral
0
4Czech (cs)
Laterální souhláska
0
5Danish (da)
Lateral
0
6German (de)
Lateral (Phonetik)
0
7English (en)
Lateral consonant
0
8Esperanto (eo)
Lateralo
0
9Spanish (es)
Consonante lateral
0
10Estonian (et)
Lateraal
0
More...

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

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Lateral consonant" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Lateral consonant
2 097
2Chinese (zh)
边音
856
3French (fr)
Consonne latérale
795
4Russian (ru)
Боковые согласные
571
5Japanese (ja)
側面音
555
6Portuguese (pt)
Consoante lateral
524
7Italian (it)
Consonante laterale
512
8Korean (ko)
설측음
396
9Spanish (es)
Consonante lateral
368
10Catalan (ca)
Consonant lateral
310
More...

Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
Simple English:
Global:
Popularity in June 2025:
Simple English:
Global:
Popularity in all years:
Simple English:
Global:
Authors in June 2025:
Simple English:
Global:
Registered authors in all years:
Simple English:
Global:
Citations:
Simple English:
Global:

Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
الحروف الساكنة
bgBulgarian
Странична съгласна
caCatalan
Consonant lateral
csCzech
Laterální souhláska
daDanish
Lateral
deGerman
Lateral (Phonetik)
enEnglish
Lateral consonant
eoEsperanto
Lateralo
esSpanish
Consonante lateral
etEstonian
Lateraal
faPersian
کناری (آواشناسی)
fiFinnish
Lateraali
frFrench
Consonne latérale
heHebrew
עיצורים צידיים
huHungarian
Laterális hang
idIndonesian
Konsonan sisi
itItalian
Consonante laterale
jaJapanese
側面音
kkKazakh
Бүйір дауыссыз
koKorean
설측음
ltLithuanian
Šoniniai priebalsiai
msMalay
Konsonan sisian
nlDutch
Lateraal (fonetiek)
noNorwegian
Lateraler
plPolish
Spółgłoska boczna
ptPortuguese
Consoante lateral
roRomanian
Consoană laterală
ruRussian
Боковые согласные
simpleSimple English
Lateral consonant
svSwedish
Lateral
ukUkrainian
Боковий приголосний
urUrdu
پہلوئی مصمتے
zhChinese
边音

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#6913
10.2023
Global:
#95987
01.2015

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#14151
08.2022
Global:
#534
01.2002

Local popularity 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 Lateral consonant from Wikipedia articles about Liquid consonant, Extensions to the International Phonetic Alphabet, Speech sound disorder, Dieter Tappert and Voiced alveolar lateral approximant. Whereas reading the article about Lateral consonant people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Voiced alveolar lateral approximant, Voiceless alveolar lateral fricative, Voiced palatal lateral approximant, Voiced alveolar lateral fricative and Palatography.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

zh: 边音

News from 15 February 2026

On 15 February 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: Jeffrey Epstein, Wuthering Heights, 2026 Winter Olympics, Epstein files, Ilia Malinin, Wuthering Heights, Ghislaine Maxwell, Lucas Pinheiro Braathen, 2026 Winter Olympics medal table, Valentine's Day.

In Simple English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: XXXTentacion, Black, List of European countries, Jeffrey Epstein, Vitruvian Man, Golden Edge, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, List of countries, Manon Bannerman, Megan Skiendiel.

About WikiRank

The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information